Business & Management
IT, Computer Science
Education & Teaching
Healthcare & Sciences
Special Admissions/Prerequisites
100

-Apply knowledge of business administration and management.

-Create business strategy by conducting research, analyzing and interpreting findings, and implementing a business plan.

-Make decisions and solve problems in a global context

MBA: Master of Business Administration 

100

-Learn the standards and procedures used to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information and information systems. 

-Learn the systems, tools, and concepts used to minimize risks to an organization's cyberspace.

-Identify and respond to a host or network security incident to restore system or infrastructure functionality.

MS: Cybersecurity Technology 

100

-Develop guidelines to select appropriate technologies for learning environments.

-Create a professional web and social media presence for the classroom.

-Discover emerging technologies like social media tools and mobile technology.

-Develop standards-based (Common Core), technology-supported lessons.


GR Cert: Instructional Technology Integration

100

-Design, manage, and interpret health classification systems, healthcare databases, data warehouses, healthcare data sets, registries, and more. 

-Implement health info management policies related to fraud and surveillance, data management, data privacy, and more. 

-Apply advanced knowledge of electronic health record systems.

-Interpret state and federal legal and regulatory standards relating to topics such as coding and revenue, privacy, security, maintenance of health records, and more. 

MS:Health Information Management & Technology

100

Daily Double: Double Points!!!

-Participate in the development of strategic plans and support the decision-making process.  

-Prepare individual and corporate federal income tax returns.  

-Propose a plan for improved use of business intelligence, data management, and analytics. 

-Design and build an accounting information system. 

MS: Management: Accounting

Requirement: Complete 15 credits of undergraduate accounting coursework, with a grade of C or better in each course. Upon submission of an official transcript, you may be accepted into the degree program with fewer than the required 15 credits of undergraduate accounting coursework, but you must complete that coursework before enrolling in your first graduate accounting course.

OR

Earn a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license as determined by a State Board of Accountancy. Upon submission of documentation and verification of your having earned a CPA license, you may enroll in a graduate accounting course.

200

-Gain proficiency in skills, tools, and techniques essential to initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, and closing a project. 

-Build, nurture, motivate, and mentor effective project teams who can engage stakeholders, resolve conflicts, and influence success.

-Use data to measure value, create transparency, communicate project status, and forecast the future performance of a project. 

MS Management: Project Management

200

Daily Double: Double points!!!

-Evaluate and maintain systems to meet specific mission security objectives. 

-Analyze the various legal frameworks and ethical guardrails that govern cyber activities. 

-Address complex cybersecurity challenges by studying and maintaining complex computing environments. 



GR Cert: Cyber Operations


200

-Apply education theory, learning models, and various teaching frameworks.

-Work with various organizational and staffing models in distance education.

-Select learning technologies to manage distance education curricula.

MS: Distance Education & E-Learning

200

-Demonstrate knowledge about today’s complex healthcare environments.

-Apply leadership practices that improve organizational effectiveness.

-Advocate for change and equity within healthcare organizations.


-Analyze regulatory constraints, provider liability, patient rights, and laws. 


MS: Healthcare Administration

200

-Exhibit both cultural competency and an understanding of the needs of individuals at all developmental levels.

-Apply best practices in individual and group mental health counseling, including assessments and the counseling process.   

-Apply evidence-based intervention and prevention strategies designed to alleviate suffering and promote the health and well-being of individuals, families, groups, and organizations.

MS: Clinical Professional Counseling


Note: Residency in MD, NM, DC, or VA is required.

300

-Apply knowledge of laws and regulations to produce a safe work environment.

-Implement new training, development, and rewards programs.

- Create employee training plans that align with company strategy.

-Create efficient and effective recruitment policies to support organizational goals.

MS Management: Human Resource Management

300

-Analyze national critical infrastructure vulnerabilities and recommend solutions. 

-Manage employees and systems at each phase of an IT project life cycle.

-Protect telecommunications and information technology networks.

-Address the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's five core security goals.

MSIT: Homeland Security Management

300

-Design and implement transformative, personalized online and hybrid learning experiences.

-Identify and apply learning analytics, current research, and theory to optimize the learning environment.

-Initiate and lead technology-based learning design projects.

-Create assessment strategies and visualization models to inform design.

MS: Learning Design & Technology

300

-Apply multidisciplinary knowledge to formulate holistic, ethical, and viable solutions to environmental issues. 

-Apply critical-thinking and problem-solving abilities to anticipate, identify, and evaluate resource and pollution issues.

-Devise a professional development plan to maintain or develop the knowledge necessary to address rapidly evolving environmental challenges.

-Evaluate possible change-management strategies needed for a more sustainable future.

MS: Environmental Management

300

-Build policy expertise and the skills you need to support dissertation research.

-Take advantage of intimate cohorts, short residencies, and dissertation support.

-Lead transformational change in a rapidly changing sector of higher education.

-Apply indicators of institutional effectiveness to community college operations.

DMCCPA: Management: Community College Policy & Administration

Requirement: Admission to the program is competitive and is based on a combination of all requirements. 

Not available for Maryland residents 

400

-Improve your skills in communication, critical thinking, quantitative reasoning, and leadership.

-Build expertise in acquisition strategy, planning, logistics, and strategy.

-Help address challenges faced by government contracting for specialized acquisitions.  

-Explore a broad array of legal issues applicable to acquisition. 

GR Cert: Acquisition & Contract Management


400

-Determine if an acquisition strategy meets an organization’s strategic, fiscal, and technical objectives. 

-Formulate information security measures by performing risk assessments and other approaches.

-Build dynamic websites that contain a variety of media and interactive components.

- Implement relational databases, applying techniques such as query optimization.

MSIT: Informatics 

400

-Advocate for the use of technology to create equitable access to high-quality education.

-Pursue goals through participation in learning activities and professional learning networks. 

-Design learning experiences and environments that meet diverse needs and interests. 

-Plan, provide, and evaluate the impact of professional learning initiatives using technology.

MEd: Instructional Technology

400

-Use a strategic planning and systems approach to health services management. 

-Assess and design global health services within different national contexts.

-Evaluate international health organizations and their roles.

-Work effectively within diverse cultural settings and across political landscapes. 

-Implement global health programs to maximize contributions and outcomes.

GR Cert: Global Health Management

400

-Design a comprehensive financial analysis of a large organization and propose a plan for improvement.

-Make strategic management decisions to solve operational problems.

-Analyze case studies of real organizations facing financial challenges. 

-Examine the sources of global financial crises and analyze how organizations respond.

MS: Accounting & Financial Management

Pre-reqs: Complete 15 credits of undergraduate accounting courses, with a grade of C or better in each course OR Certified Public Accountant (CPA)

500

-Analyze threats and assess risks within the context of law enforcement and public safety.

- Communicate, report, and write professionally and effectively.

-Conduct in-depth vulnerability studies for a mock public safety scenario.

-Learn how to lead and manage organizations. 

MS: Management: Criminal Justice Management

500

-Understand local, state, and national cybersecurity laws and regulations.

-Apply appropriate cybersecurity frameworks, models, standards, and controls.

-Identify, assess, and manage information security-related risk.

-Establish and evaluate key cybersecurity governance processes and programs

MS: Cybersecurity Management & Policy

500

-Design and implement online learning experiences through learning theory. 

-Create authentic assessment strategies and visualization models to inform design.

-Develop and publish engaging multimedia resources.

-Research, propose, and design an adaptive and personalized online course.

GR Cert: Learning Design & Technology

 

500

-Develop a management plan for a clinical trial.

-Assemble packages for an investigational new drug, a new drug application, a new device exemption, or a biologics license application.

-Demonstrate your knowledge of Federal Drug Administration (FDA) rules, including Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations.

-Comprehend the economics of bioprocessing, the regulatory environment, and business models used in biotechnology.

MS: Biotechnology: Biotechnology Regulatory Affairs

Note: Must complete a molecular biology course, with a minimum grade of C for an undergraduate course or B for a graduate course, to be accepted into this program, OR  BIOT 601 before the required program core.

500

-Create Python, R, Java, and Bash scripts to analyze data and create pipelines.

-Analyze big data, next-generation sequencing data, and scientific data.

-Perform sequence alignments and phylogenetic analyses in a research project.

-Use biostatistics, databases and data structures, algorithms, and mathematical modeling.

MS: Biotechnology: Bioinformatics

Pre-reqs: 

-molecular biology course, with a minimum grade of C for an undergraduate course or B for a graduate course 

-Statistics