Overview
The online MA in Leadership 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 in education, nonprofit, community-based, policy, governmental, and social enterprise settings.
This fully-online program offers courses in a range of fully synchronous to partially asynchronous. Students can choose 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. The program blends academic rigor and scholarship 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 student in the program, you will join a cohort of students from a variety of backgrounds and scholarly fields. With flexible options, you can tailor your studies to your interests, choosing either an individualized pathway or one of the following focused specializations:
- Organizational Learning and Leadership
- Negotiation and Communication
- Sustainable & Impact Investing
- Strategic Planning and Evaluation
As a graduate of the Leadership master's program, you will be prepared to address complex organizational and community challenges through values-driven leadership. In 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, faculty from several departments such as Education, Psychology, Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, and Child Study and Human Development are involved in the collaborative 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 fully online format. Students can choose 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 applying for Fall entry may choose to accelerate the program by taking courses during the summer of their admission year.
Students enrolled part-time typically take two to three years to complete the program. The program's online format makes the part-time study option particularly appealing for students who are balancing their education with full-time or part-time employment.
