The Master of Science in Administration (MSA) is a post-graduate degree that is a relatively new field of study that came into existences in the mid-to-late 1970s. The MSA provides broad preparation for a variety of administrative positions in a wide range of organizations. The core focus of the MSA program is about developing people-management skills and is designed to develop leaders and managers who serve in the private or public sector and understand the impact of global transformations that affect our daily lives. Dedicated to professional leadership development, the MSA degree strives to empower graduate students to cultivate their unique potential and talents as well as to promote mastery of the knowledge, skills, and aptitudes necessary for effective leadership. This balance enables graduates to make a difference by creating new opportunities and providing workable solutions to current and future 21st-century dilemmas.

The MSA program is an amalgam of the Master of Public Administration

Master of Public Administration

The Master of Public Administration is a professional post-graduate degree in Public Administration. The MPA program prepares individuals to serve as managers in the executive arm of local, state/provincial, and federal/national government, and increasingly in nongovernmental organization and...

 (MPA) and Masters of Business Administration (MBA). The MSA pulls courses from a variety of disciplines, including psychology

Psychology

Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...

, economics

Economics

Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...

, political science

Political science

Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...

, statistics

Statistics

Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments....

, leadership, computer science

Computer science

Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...

, and business administration to include technology and resource management. This degree is a unique alternative to other graduate-school options that require the GRE or GMAT as a prerequisite for program admission. In fact, the MSA in many ways parallels the more popular MPA and MBA. The MSA pulls from the MPA focuses on organizational behavior, microeconomics

Microeconomics

Microeconomics is a branch of economics that studies the behavior of how the individual modern household and firms make decisions to allocate limited resources. Typically, it applies to markets where goods or services are being bought and sold...

, public finance

Public finance

Public finance is the revenue and expenditure of public authoritiesThe purview of public finance is considered to be threefold: governmental effects on efficient allocation of resources, distribution of income, and macroeconomic stabilization.-Overview:The proper role of government provides a...

, research methods/statistics, policy process and policy analysis, ethics, public management, leadership, planning and GIS, and program evaluation/performance measurement and the MBA focus on economics, organizational behavior, marketing, accounting, finance, strategy, operations management, international business, information technology management, supply chain management, project management, government policy, and ethics.

Universities that currently offer this degree include

• California State University Bakersfield
• California State University San Marcos
• Central Michigan University
  Central Michigan University
  Central Michigan University is a public research university located in Mount Pleasant in the U.S. state of Michigan...
  
  
• Arizona State University
  Arizona State University
  Arizona State University is a public research university located in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area of the State of Arizona...
  
  
• Fairleigh Dickinson University
  Fairleigh Dickinson University
  Fairleigh Dickinson University is a private university founded as a junior college in 1942. It now has several campuses located in New Jersey, Canada, and the United Kingdom.-Description:...
  
  
• Lincoln University of Pennsylvania
• Pepperdine University
  Pepperdine University
  Pepperdine University is an independent, private, medium-sized university affiliated with the Churches of Christ. The university's campus overlooking the Pacific Ocean in unincorporated Los Angeles County, California, United States, near Malibu, is the location for Seaver College, the School of...
  
  
• Saint Michael's College
  Saint Michael's College
  Saint Michael's College is a private, residential liberal arts Catholic college. The campus is located in Colchester, Vermont. It was founded in 1904 by the Society of Saint Edmund, a French order of Catholic priests.-History:...
  
  , Vermont
• Southeast Missouri State University
  Southeast Missouri State University
  Southeast Missouri State University, is a public, accredited university located in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States, near the banks of the Mississippi River. The institution, having started as a normal school, has a traditional strength in teacher education...
  
  
• Trinity University
  Trinity Washington University
  Trinity Washington University, founded in 1897 by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, is a Roman Catholic university located in Washington, D.C. across from Catholic University of America and the Dominican House of Studies...
  
  , Washington, D.C.
• University of South Dakota, Vermillion
• University of West Florida
  University of West Florida
  The University of West Florida, also known as West Florida and UWF, is a mid-sized public university located in Pensacola, Florida, United States. UWF is a member institution of the State University System of Florida. The University of West Florida is a Research University, which specializes in...
  
  
• Albanian University, Tirana, Albania
• University of North Carolina Greensboro Greensboro, NC