BUILDING GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMS:
ACTIVITIES & STATUS
Increase graduate students by 450 in the next eight years to enhance the professional education spectrum
- Consultant is engaged and the 6-8 year implementation plan is in progress to develop nine new MS degrees and one new doctorate.
- New M.S. programs in School of Architecture (see Invest in Academic Strengths section)
- New program development – e.g., Real Estate Development, Interior Architecture, Trauma Psychology and Counseling proposed
- Graduate enrollment up over 20% in last two years, with increase in full-time MBA enrollment at 50 percent
Increase Continuing and Professional Students
Program development
- Distance education accelerated midwifery option
- Midwifery 1st surgical assist and pharmacology program
- Homeland security offering
Introduce new programs
- M.S. in Sustainable Design launched (45 students by second year)
- M.S. in Construction Management launched (18 students in first year)
- M.S. in Interior Architecture proposed