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ABOUT MS MANAGEMENT

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A degree that propels professional development.

The MS in Management is designed for professionals seeking to advance their careers through a flexible, applied business education. Delivered fully online and built in five 7-week sessions, the program is accessible to students from any undergraduate background and emphasizes real-world learning. Students develop essential leadership and management skills while working through coursework that mirrors today’s organizational challenges.

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No Business experience?

No problem. This program is built to start with the fundamentals, build your confidence and help you apply what you learn right away. 

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Choose your path

Build the degree that fits your goals.

The MS in Management offers flexible emphasis options through stackable graduate certificates, allowing you to tailor your degree to your career goals. After completing core management coursework, you can choose an emphasis area that provide either broad business exposure or focused skill development—all while staying on pace to complete your degree efficiently. This flexible structure ensures your degree stays relevant, personalized and aligned with where you want to go next.

Cohort Timeline

Beginning each fall, the program follows a fully online, accelerated format that can be completed in as little as one year. You may begin the program at multiple start points throughout the year, progressing through five 7-week sessions, completing two courses at a time and earning stackable graduate certificates along the way-all within a structured timeline designed for you. A one-year-to-degree timeline is provided below. Courses with * can be substituted for alternative classes. Substituting may lengthen the time to degree. 

Courses
  • Strategic Human Resource Management: This course provides an in-depth examination of the theories, concepts, and models of strategic human resource management. We examine available evidence on the effectiveness of HRM practices and the relationship between Strategic HRM and firm performance.
  • Leading the Self: This course provides a framework for lifelong leadership development based on two perspectives: values-based leadership and competency-based leadership.
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  • Sustainable Management: This course will focus on leading, building, and maintaining sustainable organizations. The course provides students with the knowledge, tools and skills to become responsible managers with insights into how sustainability, responsibility and ethics can be incorporated into the traditional functions of business such as strategic management, entrepreneurship, IT, operations, supply chain management, human resources and marketing.
  • Strategic Management: This course equips students to analyze, formulate, and implement strategy at both business- and corporate-levels. Students learn to diagnose competitive environments, evaluate internal capabilities, and lead strategic change in global organizations. The emphasis is on managerial insight and integrative decision-making rather than quantitative modeling.
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  • Business and Marketing Strategy: The characteristics and management of markets are described in topics that include the business and marketing environment, components of the strategic marketing mix, market segmentation, planning and responding to competitors' strategies.
  • Finance and Accounting for Non-Finance Leaders: This course introduces the fundamentals of Finance and Accounting to students without a Finance or Accounting background. The emphasis is on understanding and applying financial concepts to support managerial decision-making rather than advanced technical detail. Topics include interpreting financial statements, conducting financial statement analysis, project evaluation, cost of capital, valuation, capital structure, and financial planning. Students will develop the ability to read, analyze, and communicate financial information for effective management.
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  • Evidence Based Decision Making: This course develops the skills managers need to make sound, data-informed, and ethically responsible decisions in complex organizational settings. Students learn to integrate research evidence, organizational data, professional expertise, and stakeholder perspectives to solve practical business problems. Emphasis is placed on critical thinking, strategic application, and effective written communication of decisions and recommendations. Through case analysis, simulations, and applied projects, students will strengthen their ability to lead with evidence and influence organizational outcomes. Signature experience course.
  • *The Learning Organization: the course begins with Senge's 5th Discipline, which states that learning organizations depend upon the mastery of five dimensions: systems thinking, personal mastery, mental models, building shared vision and team learning.
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  • *Critical Thinking Beyond Business As Usual: business does not happen in a vacuum. This course will move your critical thinking focus from a discipline-specific way of thinking to a more integrated exploration of how disciplines work together and impact one another. 
  • *Culture as a Competitive Advantage: people stay in roles for a variety of reasons. Part of that stems from company culture. In this course, you'll understand the value of the statement "culture eats strategy for breakfast" and then create initiatives to ensure culture drives ongoing performance and becomes a source of competitive advantage.

Congratulations! You're on your way to more career opportunities while you realize your full leadership potential.

Brinley Kowalkowski

Learn From Your Peers

"I really like the MS Management program because there's such a diverse group of people. There's people from different age groups, experiences and nationalities which give many different perspectives."

Brinley Kowalkowski
MS Management

MS in Management at UW-Green Bay: Frequently Asked Questions

The Master of Science in Management at UW–Green Bay is a fully online, flexible graduate degree designed to build leadership, strategic thinking and business decision-making skills. Whether you’re advancing your current career or transitioning into a business role, this program equips you with practical, real-world management expertise

No prior business degree is required. This program is built for:

  • Early-career professionals looking to grow into leadership roles
  • Working professionals seeking advancement
  • Individuals without a business background
  • Career changers entering business or management fields

No. The MS in Management is designed for students from all academic backgrounds and provides the business foundation you need to succeed.

Yes. The MS in Management is 100% online, allowing you to learn from anywhere while balancing work and personal commitments.

You can complete the program: in as little as one year by completing the recommended pathway, or at a pace that fits your schedule

The program is designed for focus and flexibility:

  • 30 total credits
  • Five 7-week blocks
  • Two courses at a time

This format helps you stay engaged and manage your workload effectively.

Yes. With multiple start points throughout the year, you can begin the program when it works best for your schedule.

As part of your MS in Management, you will earn three embedded graduate certificates that build toward your full degree. This allows you to:

  • Gain credentials along the way
  • Customize your learning experience
  • Build specialized expertise

Yes, you can customize your MS Management degree at UW-Green Bay. You can tailor your experience through:

  • Elective certificate choices
  • Specialized areas of interest
  • Flexible course sequencing

No, the MS in Management program does not require GMAT or GRE scores.

The MS in Management is one of the most affordable graduate business programs in the region, with total tuition typically around $22,000. View the current tuition rates on the Cost Webpage 

Yes. Financial aid and scholarship opportunities are available to help make your degree more affordable.

After graduating with an MS in Management from UW-Green Bay, you can pursue roles such as:

  • Project Manager
  • Operations Manager
  • Business Analyst
  • Team Lead or Supervisor
  • Organizational Leader

The UW-Green Bay MS Management program offers you three certificate credentials embedded in your master's degree as well as: 

  • Flexible online format
  • Completion in as little as one year
  • Built-in stackable certificates
  • Affordable, high-value tuition 
  • No entrance exams requirements
  • Designed for real-world impact
Chair Aniruddha Pangarkar

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