Leadership, M.A.

Lead with purpose and cultivate diverse, effective teams. Be prepared for leadership in today’s complex and changing contexts.

In today's world, leaders are tasked with managing increasing complexity. As organizations become more geographically distributed and diverse, leaders must be able to effectively guide people and manage systems through innovation, change-acceleration and globalization.

Our flexible, online Master of Arts in Leadership program is designed for working adults who seek to strengthen their leadership skills and aspire to take on new leadership roles. In this 33-credit hour program, you will learn to lead teams and organizations both relationally and strategically. You will develop your leadership purpose and strengths to lead effectively in a wide variety of contexts.

The program can be started in any semester and be completed at a full-time, half-time or part-time pace. 

Program Customization

You work with an advisor to craft an interdisciplinary course of study that best prepares you for current or planned leadership contexts. More than a third of the degree credits are electives where you can choose from more than 100 courses to match with your career interests and desired areas of leadership development.

For example, courses of study can be customized for the following focus areas:

• Business
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Nonprofit
• Higher education
• Sports teams and organizations

Program Delivery

Leadership is all about engaging with people. So, to enable our students to learn the personal aspects of leadership, the core leadership courses include 90-minute synchronous class sessions using Zoom once a week. Each class session enables you to discuss what you are learning from that module and engage with others as part of your learning experience. 

Many of the core leadership courses are conducted in a mini-term format, allowing you to focus your attention on fewer classes at once.

Note: While the program is offered in a format that makes it available to students in a fully remote manner (i.e., does not require attending courses on-site), some elective courses do not offer that option. In addition, electives vary in scheduled format, with some offered in mini-terms and others offered over the course of a full term.

Accreditation

Lenoir-Rhyne is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.

The M.A. in Leadership is not accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP) due to the nature of the program.