Online Performance Improvement Degree :: Accredited Universities

Looking for an advanced education that can take your career to a whole new level? Grantham University’s Master of Science in Performance Improvement (MS-PI) program teaches progressive skills in organizational resource management. Through Grantham’s convenient, 100% online format and professionally relevant courses, you will learn how to manage complex organizational challenges through performance improvement strategies. Additionally, you will become adept at analyzing an organization, generating strategies to maximize performance and implementing solutions.

MS Performance Improvement Program Outcomes
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At the successful completion of the program, you should be able to:

Evaluate organizational and human performance issues

Integrate performance improvements with business needs

Prepare proposals and develop strategies to influence stakeholder decisions

Determine viable interventions to improve performance

Design and develop intervention products

Measure and revise performance improvement solutions

Organize and manage performance improvement projects

Discern professionalism related to performance improvement consulting

Entry Requirements

You are required to have a baccalaureate degree with a cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 2.5 from an institution accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Official transcripts showing proof of the baccalaureate degree must be received by the Registrar’s Office within 90 days of enrollment.

We require the following documentation prior to the evaluation process, as appropriate to your situation:

- A copy of all college/university transcripts

- Employer course certificates with description of course content and class hours

- Sailor/Marine American Council on Education Registry Transcript (SMART), Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support (DANTES) transcript, College Level Examination Program (CLEP) score, Coast Guard Institute (CGI) transcript, Army American Council on Education Registry Transcript System (AARTS) transcript, Community College of the Air Force (CCAF) transcript and/or other military transcripts

Other Fees

Graduation Fee - $100

Technology Fee - $35 per 8-week term

Transcript - $10

International Shipping Fee - $50 per course

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Excelsior College is one of only a few accredited colleges nationwide to offer an online Master of Business Administration (Human Performance Technology).

An emerging field, human performance technology uses innovative theories and techniques to improve individual and organizational productivity. As a new field, HPT is ripe for rapid advancement. You can move quickly to the forefront of this fast-growing discipline with an MBA. And you'll enjoy all of Excelsior's traditional advantages:

- Convenient online courses that you can fit easily into your schedule.

- Generous credit-transfer policies that speed you toward an MBA by building on your prior education.

- A 40-year track record as a national leader in distance learning and adult education.

- Affordable tuition and flexible payment options that help you fit the MBA into your budget.

Excelsior's MBA concentration in human performance technology uses a cutting-edge interdisciplinary approach that draws upon psychology, HR management, organizational behavior, and other fields of study.

Working closely with an academic advisor, you can customize the human performance technology concentration to your interests, experience, and career objectives. The program integrates:

- Learning modules developed by the International Society for Performance Improvement.

- Graduate-level courses from other accredited distance learning institutions.

Entry Requirements

International Students
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International applicants from non-English-speaking countries must show evidence of English language proficiency through one of the following options:

- TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language)

- Required minimum score of 525 on the paper based test or 69 on the Web-based test.
- Scores older than two years at the time of your application to Excelsior will not be accepted.

- MELAB (Michigan English Language Assessment Battery)

- Required minimum score of 75.
- Scores older than two years at the time of your application to Excelsior will not be accepted.

- IELTS (International English Language Testing System)
- Required minimum overall band score of 5.5.
- Scores older than two years at the time of your application to Excelsior will not be accepted.

- Excelsior College® Examinations English Composition exam (ENGx111) or UExcel® College Writing exam (ENGx110).

- Completion of at least 9 credit hours of academic work in courses delivered in English at an institution of higher education in the United States.

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Make immediate, valuable impact in your organization with our highly-regarded Master of Education in Education and Human Resource Studies – organizational learning, performance, and change (OLPC) specialization.

Utilizing the latest research on change management and performance improvement, our organizational management degree will help you produce viable solutions and move you toward becoming a strategic business partner in the companies you work with.

If you’re looking for a master’s in organizational development, this program may be the right fit for you. Our innovative curriculum prepares you to become an effective manager, leader, and facilitator as you learn how to:

- Analyze workplace issues

- Diagnose the need for organizational change, then plan and implement that change

- Enhance performance systems

- Conduct performance consulting

- Understand and develop workplace expertise within employees

- Develop and implement workplace learning

- Evaluate learning and performance improvement interventions

Focusing on workplace learning and organizational learning as two key areas, our performance improvement degree teaches you how to apply foundational principles to teams, systems, processes, and organizations to build programs and deliver custom improvement interventions that make them function more effectively. You’ll also use action learning projects that feature real organizational scenarios to address problems involving employee strengths, interaction, and performance.

Entry Requirements

The organizational learning, performance, and change (M.Ed.) degree requires applicants to have the following:

- A bachelor's degree from a regionally-accredited institution.

- A 3.0 GPA (or international equivalent) on all undergraduate coursework.

- Five years of work experience (professional or non-professional).

- GRE scores are not required.

Applicants should submit the below documents

- Statement of purpose

- Current resume

- Official Transcripts

- TOEFL score (only international applicants)
The minimum score for applicants is 80 on the Internet-based test (550 on the paper-based test and 6.0 on the IELTS).

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Performance Coaching is an innovative distance learning degree; the first of its kind in Scotland. It is for experienced performance coaches who wish to extend their expertise adjacent to their sport- specific qualifications. The course has been developed to articulate with the emerging UKCC Level 4 certification process. It will develop skills of critical analysis and reflective practice, enhance problem-solving capacity and promote innovative solutions to performance coaching problems.

Your work will be grounded in performance coaching practice, considering case studies and experiential learning from peers and leading coaching practitioners.

Course objectives
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This distance learning course is for experienced performance coaches who wish to extend their expertise alongside their sport-specific qualifications. We have developed the course to link with the emerging UK Coaching Certificate (UKCC) Level 4 certification process. It will develop skills of critical analysis and reflective practice, enhance problem-solving capacity and promote innovative solutions to performance coaching problems.

In addition to the sports-specific coaching skills, you will have developed in your practice, we develop coaches who:

reflect continuously and challenge personal assumptions and beliefs to improve future performance

critically reflect on decisions in complex and unpredictable situations

recognise and resolve problematic coaching issues through the generation of innovative strategies and solutions

design and implement an optimal learning environment to impact on athletes’ performance needs

design and implement a planned and strategic approach to performance improvement

develop and manage appropriate support structures to facilitate improved performance

Entry Requirements

A minimum of a second class Honours degree (2.1 preferred) or equivalent. Applicants without these formal qualifications but with significant appropriate/relevant work/life experience are encouraged to apply.

Five years' relevant/appropriate work experience is required.

English language requirements
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If English is not your first language, you must provide evidence of your proficiency such as a minimum IELTS score of 6.5 (5.5 in all bands).

If you don’t meet the required score you may be able to register for one of our pre-sessional English courses. To register you must hold a conditional offer for your course and have an IELTS score 0.5 or 1.0 below the required standard.

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The online master’s degree in educational technology in training and performance improvement program is focused on providing educational professionals and corporate trainers with the knowledge they need to integrate the latest instructional technologies into their coursework. Online master’s degree in educational technology students have an opportunity to examine the latest, most relevant strategies of distance learning and online instruction, developing a high degree of comfort with the most cutting-edge hardware, software, and web-based instructional technology and performance improvement platforms. The skills students hone during the program can be applied to a number of different fields, including education, healthcare, instructional design, e-learning, new media, human resources, and many other positions in the corporate training industry.

Entry Requirements

To be admitted into the educational technology master’s degree program, you must:

- Complete a formal application

- Have all official graduate and undergraduate transcripts (including community college) sent to LTU

- Submit the names, titles/ positions and contact information for three references

- Provide a formal resume that includes your extracurricular activities

- Complete an interview with an Admissions Counselors

International applicants
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Applicants whose second language is not in English must show the English language proficiency

The minimum requirements are as follows:

TOEFL Paper-Based Test: 550
TOEFL Computer-Based Test (at a testing facility): 213
TOEFL Internet-Based Test: 79

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