Master of Public Policy and Administration

at California Lutheran University - Thousand Oaks Campus USA

This one-year program will provide you with the knowledge required to effectively lead people, projects and organizations. You’ll gain crucial business skills that will increase your professional marketability and allow you to excel in today’s business environment.

Our ACBSP-accredited M.S. in Management program has been specifically designed for liberal arts, STEM and other graduates working in a wide range of fields. If you want to take your education and career to the next level, this is the program for you.

This STEM-designated program emphasizes practical applications and interactive learning, and includes close collaboration with members of a world-class economics faculty and forecasting team.

The M.S. in Quantitative Economics degree emphasizes practical applications in curriculum and interactive learning, including close collaboration with members of a world-class economic faculty and economics forecasting team. With a strong emphasis on the development of applied economic concepts and theory, this unique evening program rigorously prepares our students in mathematics, statistical analysis and research.

"Students come from all over the world to Cal Lutheran's School of Management. Our MBA program is recognized as "An Exceptional Value in U.S. Graduate Business Education."

Cal Lutheran is a highly-ranked university, where international students are enrolled with domestic students in classes conducted by a highly-skilled faculty.

Full-time MBA students share in a wide array of academic, professional, and cultural activities in an outstanding Southern California location and environment.

The need for skilled leaders in public policy and administration has never been greater. Our ACBSP-accredited MPPA program is a unique hybrid designed to illuminate both sides of the work needed to create and manage public policy.

As the purpose and scope of today's private, public, and nonprofit organizations become more complex, so too does the role of the administrative and policy-making professionals who lead them. Our Master of Public Policy and Administration program is designed to position you to meet and exceed these evolving demands through a highly respected, practical, and flexible program of study that blends practice and theory.

Our ACBSP-accredited MSIT program provides students with a forward-thinking technical foundation used to effectively plan, design, secure and manage IT systems. 

Program Highlights
Information Technology (IT) is pervasive today and is at the core of almost any business organization. The Master of Science in Information Technology program (MSIT) is designed to provide students with a solid and forward-thinking technical foundation used to effectively plan, design, implement and manage IT solutions and systems. It prepares students to be strong technical leaders, ready to lead IT-enabled organizational change.

The MSIT program serves both technical professionals wishing to advance their career in the field as well as business professionals wishing to gain valuable IT skills needed to transform enterprise operations. The curriculum is carefully designed to combine the study of fundamental theory with sound practice, applying latest technologies and tools to real-world problems in the comfort of the classroom.

Program Learning Objectives
Students who successfully complete the program will be able to:

• Effectively design, manage and utilize technology to enhance enterprise operations and business processes, as well as drive organizational innovation by creating new IT-enabled business opportunities.
• Assess organizational data and information requirements, build and implement data models as well as use basic and advanced analytics tools to derive meaning from the data.
• Assess information security risks and develop and implement solutions to protect organizational systems from cyber threats through offensive and defensive planning and incident response.