Program Requirements

The innovative program is accomplished by two two-week residencies, distance learning and independent study with faculty members from across the Maxwell School, who work together to ensure an interdisciplinary approach to learning.

This unique arrangement allows MSSc students to earn a master’s degree while concurrently maintaining their professional careers as NGO officials, teachers, military personnel, government officers, journalists, and corporate executives involved in international business. Applications are reviewed and accepted on a rolling basis.

Student Learning Outcomes

1. Do sophisticated research and understand/digest difficult written materials. Negotiate varying approaches to a cross-disciplinary topic

2. Write research papers that are well organized and communicated the argument

3. Use largely qualitative methods to formulate the basis for each paper

4. Show a mastery of the core (curricular) area that they have selected for their focus

5. Demonstrate research results and/or understanding of the topic