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Engineering managers hold unique positions in business and industry because of their ability to blend technical skills with a balance of essential business and management skills. They plan, lead, coordinate, and drive the direction of design, research and development, and production in organizations. As competitive pressures continue to reshape the typical role of the engineer from one that was largely technical to one that encompasses business and management, individuals with skills that bridge that gap will have a distinct advantage over their competitors.

The Penn State online Master of Engineering Management combines a curriculum rich in problem solving, management science, and economics. It was designed to enhance your capabilities to manage projects and lead technical teams in both the public and private sectors.

Why Engineering Management at Penn State?

Penn State's engineering programs have consistently ranked high among the leading engineering programs in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report. The online Master of Engineering Management combines faculty expertise from Penn State Great Valley and Penn State Harrisburg. The course content is enhanced through interactions with your fellow students and the faculty. You will move through the program as a cohort, taking only two years to complete the degree. Learning in a cohort creates a broader environment for collaborating and networking with your peers and faculty, while reinforcing instruction and content.

Who Should Apply?

If you are looking to provide technical leadership to your teams and projects while simultaneously weighing the financial risks and rewards to the corporation, managing human and technical resources, and making high-risk decisions in an uncertain environment, this is the degree for you. The Penn State online Master of Engineering Management fulfills an industry need to educate engineers in the techniques, theories, and practices necessary to operate effectively in management roles.

Applicants should possess an undergraduate degree in engineering, mathematics, physics, or science and have demonstrated the skills required for managing complex engineering projects, products, and services in a typical engineering organization. To enroll in the Master of Engineering Management program, you should have a minimum of three years of applicable work experience.

Career Opportunities for Graduates

The engineering management program is well-suited for you if you want to move into a management position with an engineering company or a more technically intensive role in a business environment. As an engineering manager, you could have a variety of career opportunities available. Because of your expanded skill set, you can look for employment in areas such as:

biomedical engineering
computer and electronic product manufacturing
environmental engineering
federal, state, and local government
pharmaceutical and medical manufacturing
professional, scientific, and technical services
research and development
transportation equipment manufacturing

Entry Requirements

For admission to the Graduate School, an applicant must hold either (1) a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited U.S. institution or (2) a tertiary (postsecondary) degree that is deemed comparable to a four-year bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited U.S. institution. This degree must be from an officially recognized degree-granting institution in the country in which it operates.

To enroll in the Master of Engineering Management program, you should have a minimum of three years of applicable work experience. All applicants are expected to have earned a junior/senior grade point average of 3.0 or higher.

The program contains a number of courses requiring a solid background in engineering, mathematics, physics, or science so that participants are able to demonstrate the skills required for the management of complex engineering projects, products, and services within a typical engineering organization.

International applicants
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All international applicants must take and submit scores for the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) or the IELTS (International English Language Testing System), with the exceptions noted below. The minimum acceptable score for the TOEFL is 550 for the paper-based test, or a total score of 80 with a 19 on the speaking section for the internet-based test (iBT). Applicants with iBT speaking scores between 15 and 18 may be considered for provisional admission, which requires completion of specified remedial English courses ESL 114G (American Oral English for Academic Purposes) and/or ESL 116G (ESL/Composition for Academic Disciplines) and attainment of a grade of B or higher. The minimum acceptable composite score for the IELTS is 6.5. Graduate programs may have more stringent requirements.

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This course is designed to provide a broad-based education in the principles and practice of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), leading to the award of Postgraduate Diploma (PgDip) or Master of Science (MSc). A postgraduate certificate (PgCert) exit point is also available. The course may be taken either on campus or by fully online distance learning, studying full-time or part-time.

Graduates of the course are expected to have a broad overview of the field of GIS, to have extensive practical experience of GIS and related software and hardware, and be able to operate at a professional level in GIS employment.

PgDip modules cover issues such as the representation, acquisition, management and manipulation of spatial data, spatial analysis and modelling, remote sensing, GIS in the commercial environment, databases and web programming. Concepts and techniques are illustrated using a variety of applications. Students can take one optional module from a choice of GIS work experience / work-based project, GIS for environmental management, and customising GIS. Students may also opt for an environmental strand of the course.

In addition to acquiring substantial theoretical knowledge of the subject, sudents gain extensive practical experience using a variety of software, including ArcGIS, ERDAS Imagine, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, SPSS and a number of GIS extensions and plug-ins.

Those successfully completing the Masters element of the course will also have demonstrated their ability to undertake and present a piece of independent research at an advanced level.

Entry Requirements

You are generally expected to have a minimum 2.2 honours degree with a substantial component of geography, environmental science or computing.

Applicants with qualifications in other relevant disciplines or with academic qualifications below 2.2 honours will also be considered on individual merit. In such cases, previous experience of GIS and competence in day-to-day computing will be an advantage, and should be explained in detail on the application form.

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IELTS overall band 6.0 with no contributing band less than 5.5 or TOEFL 550 in the paper based-test

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Environmental disasters, terrorism, espionage, border transgressions—stories about threats like these make headlines every day. Kaplan University could help you pursue an important and challenging career protecting the security and safety of our country.

If you already have a bachelor's degree from a regionally or nationally accredited college and want to earn an advanced degree to further your career, the Master of Science in Homeland Security and Emergency Management could help you pursue your goal. This criminal justice degree program could help prepare you to pursue management-level positions with employers such as the Department of Homeland Security and other federal, state, and local agencies, as well consulting companies in the private sector.

The Kaplan University Master of Science in Homeland Security and Emergency Management’s curriculum focuses on the legal, social, business, economic, and political aspects of the industry. Our Web-based courses are taught by experienced industry professionals and are available virtually any time, anywhere you have access to the Internet. With this online master’s degree program, you will explore how societal institutions, government agencies, lawmakers, businesses, and other organizations find sustainable security and emergency management solutions on a local, regional, national, and global level.

The master’s degree curriculum emphasizes the following:

- The evaluation of social and ethical implications of decisions made to protect people and property

- Complex global challenges with innovative solutions

- The application of theory, current knowledge, and legal doctrine

- Cultural, individual, and role differences of constituents and stakeholders

- The application of leadership principals to shape change and improve management policy and practices

- The evaluation of research on current knowledge and developing trends

- The application of organizational behavior and management theories to daily operations

Entry Requirements

To apply to Kaplan University’s graduate programs, you must complete a bachelor's degree from a college or university accredited by a regional or national accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

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International students must submit evidence that they meet Kaplan University’s general admissions standards for all students.

All international applicants must demonstrate a command of oral and written English skills to ensure they are prepared to complete college- or university-level coursework. Evidence of English language proficiency must be provided at the time of enrollment and may include the following:

- Proof of completion of secondary education (or higher) in a country where English is the primary language

- A transcript indicating completion of at least 45 quarter credit hours (or equivalent) and a CGPA of 2.0 or higher (or equivalent) from a university located in an English-speaking country

- Proof of completion of secondary education at an international high school where English is the primary language of instruction

- A transcript indicating completion of an English composition course with a grade of “C” or above from a U.S. institution of higher learning

- The minimum required score on the Kaplan University English Proficiency examination

- The minimum required TOEFL, ELTS, EIKEN, or PTE Academic, Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC), or Defense Language Proficiency Test, English Comprehension Language (ECL) score as shown below:

TOEFL

Paper-Based : 550
Computer-Based : 213
Internet-Based : 80

IELTS : 6.5
PTE Academic : 253
EIKEN : Grade Pre-1
TOEIC : 750

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This internationally-recognised MBA course is designed for practising managers aspiring to higher positions. The emphasis for your learning is directly rooted in management practice – the ‘master’ in the degree title signifies your ‘mastery’ of the art and science of management. To achieve this level of capability the programme concentrates on strategic analysis, interdisciplinary skills, intellectual stimulation and independent judgement and builds these upon a solid foundation of core disciplines, including human resource management, organisational behaviour, accounting and finance, marketing and operations.

The MBA course is designed as an integrated programme, and balances your learning time between 75% of compulsory elements (including the final organisation-based project) with 25% from optional modules. This enables you to adjust the curriculum to suit your needs. MBA modules are challenging but will always direct you towards improving your management capabilities. You will need to have some experiential knowledge at a managerial level and/or of decision-making, so that you have a practical business base on which to build your MBA learning.

You will learn to analyse, synthesise and evaluate a wide range of situations within the broad framework of organisations, their external context and internal management. Among these you will look at economic, environmental, social and technological change issues, corporate governance, markets and customers, managing resources and operations, financing organisations, management and development of people, developing information technologies for application in business and management within a global knowledge-based economy, and development of appropriate business policies and strategies within a changing context to meet stakeholder interests.

The Open University Business School is accredited internationally by the EFMD Quality Improvement System (EQUIS); by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB); and the MBA is accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA). Only a select group of less than 60 business schools worldwide have this triple-accredited status.

Entry Requirements

All entrants to the MBA are required to have a minimum of three years’ experience in a managerial, professional or technical role. Usually this means that you are at least 25 years old as it is unusual (but not impossible) to be able to satisfy the ‘experience’ requirement under this age.

You will also need an appropriate facility in English language, sufficient to be able to work effectively at postgraduate level; generally this means capability equivalent to an International English Language Test System (IELTS) score of 6.5.

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The Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) degree program is designed for experienced nurses with a BSN degree who are independent learners and who want the convenience and flexibility an online program can offer. The MSN degree requires a minimum of 36 credits consisting of different combinations of courses: core, direct care core, electives, specialty, and Practicum. Two years experience in nursing is recommended and a BSN degree from an accredited program is required.

Three areas of nursing specialty are offered: Nurse Educator, Nursing Informatics and Nursing Administration.

The Nurse Educator program prepares graduates for teaching roles in healthcare and academic settings. The Nursing Informatics program prepares graduates to function as a nursing informatics specialist. The Nursing Administration program prepares graduates for the role of nurse administrator in healthcare settings. A certificate in the selected area of specialty is awarded along with the MSN degree.

In addition to the MSN degree outcomes, the graduate of the Nursing Administration Program will be able to:

- Utilize systems thinking to lead and manage complex healthcare organizations.

- Provide leadership in the professional design of nursing care grounded in ethical, multicultural, and professional standards and healthcare policy.

- Utilize financial, material, human, and environmental resources to benefit nursing divisions in complex healthcare organizations.

- Use information management systems to facilitate organizational decision-making.

- Demonstrate communication skills and relationship building competencies to support organizational goals.

- Demonstrate leadership in the professional community.

- Integrate best evidence to provide quality nursing care and promote improvement in healthcare outcomes.

- Use an interdisciplinary approach to execute nursing administration practice.

Entry Requirements

- All applicants must have a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited college or university with a GPA of at least 2.75 is recommended

- must have a current RN license valid in the United States

- Applicants to degree programs must provide a current resume with their completed application.

- Applicants to degree programs must provide two letters of recommendation with their completed application.

- All statements of background and goals must be completed and submitted with a completed application and will be evaluated critically and used to assess an applicant's ability to succeed in and benefit from the graduate program.

- All appropriate essay questions must be completed and submitted with a completed application; all essays are evaluated critically and used to assess a student's ability to succeed in and benefit from the graduate program.

- Relevance of work experience and career objectives to the program objectives. Two years of work experience is recommended.

- The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) is required of all applicants whose primary language is not English. A score of 550 on the written; 213 on the computer version; or 79 on the Internet version is required.

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