Overview
The Leadership master's program is designed to prepare you to become an effective, informed, and skilled leader who can facilitate the creation and development of just and inclusive organizations. Graduates from this program go on to leadership roles across a variety of organizational contexts, including education, nonprofit, community-based, policy, governmental, and social enterprise settings.
Tufts offers this program in two formats: a residential option, which offers both in-person and online courses, and a fully online option, which offers courses in a range of fully synchronous to partially asynchronous. Both tracks allow students to pursue the program either full-time or part-time.
Program Outcomes
The Tufts Leadership master's program prepares graduates to lead with integrity across a variety of organizational contexts, including education, nonprofit, community-based, policy, governmental, and social enterprise settings. The program blends academic rigor with applied learning, encouraging students to examine systems of power, develop a personal leadership philosophy, and apply their learning to real-world challenges.
As a graduate of the Leadership master's program, you will be prepared to implement changes to enhance inclusive excellence; design and evaluate programs to enact change; and lead organizations through sustainable transformation. You will develop a deep understanding of foundational and scholarship while acquiring practical tools to implement changes within and across organizations and institutions.
You will join students from a variety of backgrounds and scholarly fields, all united in their desire to explore diversity in interdisciplinary contexts. Upon completion of the Leadership master's program, you will learn to:
- Use both theory and practical application.
- Lead with strategic insight, emotional intelligence, cultural competency, and integrity.
- Design and implement significant change initiatives, such as equitable change.
- Build collaborative teams and navigate organizational dynamics.
- Influence policy and practice in service of the public good.
- Utilize data-driven decision making.
This program is interdisciplinary and courses are prepared and delivered from multiple perspectives. Additionally, the program collaborates with faculty from several departments such as Education, Psychology, Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, and Child Study and Human Development departments in course and curriculum development process.
Flexible Format and Options
This program is dynamic and flexible in order to meet the needs of our students and is available in a residential or fully online format. Both program formats allow students to pursue their degree full-time (minimum of 9 credits per semester) or part-time.
Students enrolled full-time can complete the program within two years if some courses are taken over the summer. Students interested in the full-time option are admitted for Fall entry, though they may choose to accelerate the program by taking courses during the summer of their admission year. Part-time students may be admitted in Fall or Spring.
Students enrolled part-time typically take two to three years to complete the program. The availability of courses online and in the evening makes the part-time study option particularly appealing for students who are balancing their education with full-time or part-time employment.
