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Take the next Step in your Career

Strengthen individual skills, self-awareness, and confidence as an equity-minded, collaborative, and agile leader. Embody dynamic leadership principles that prepare you for the complexity of challenges in ethical and professional demands of an increasingly diverse and inter-connected world.

The Augsburg Master of Arts in Leadership (MAL) is a cross-disciplinary program designed to help individuals transform into conscientious, self-aware leaders capable of positively influencing others and shaping organizational progress. Our hybrid model curriculum emphasizes a personalized course selection, helping students realize their career goals and unique interests. Students gain critical insight into today’s leadership challenges through community-centered collaboration with peers of other backgrounds, identities, and experiences.

Credits and Courses Required: 11 Total Courses / 33 Credits

  • 4 Required Courses
  • 1 Course from Requisite Area 1 (Personal Growth and Interpersonal Dynamics)
  • 1 Course from Requisite Area 2 (Organizational and Global Context)
  • 5 Electives

The MAL program promotes leadership as a process which:

1) inspires cooperation among people who must compete for limited resources,

2) promotes productivity within and beyond the organization, and

3) works toward progress for the individual and the organization.

To accomplish this, individuals aspiring to positions of leadership must possess three key attributes: a sense of vision, the ability to persuade, and the ability to direct action. Underlying these attributes is a broad range of abilities and awareness, outlined in the Augsburg Leadership Development Model, that serve as specific outcomes for the MAL Program. Augsburg’s model of leadership development is designed to assess, promote, enhance and refine these capabilities within the individual.

Degree Pathways and Dual Degree Options

Augsburg Masters students bring a diverse set of skills, talents, and backgrounds to our program ranging from healthcare, education, non-profit and corporate environments. Just as their careers take different directions, our students enter the program through different degree pathways and some choose to expand their graduate studies with a dual degree!

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Nathan '21

"I appreciated the depth and breadth of the program and the diversity of perspectives brought by colleagues from a variety of industries from non-profits to hospitals, to technology, or even manufacturing."

 

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Alumni Spotlight: Nathan

Study Abroad

ML 577 Universal Responsibility: A Central American Perspective explores this concept both intellectually and through experience. This Master of Arts in Leadership course, organized through Augsburg’s Center for Global Education and Experience, is open to all Augsburg graduate students.

Faculty

Benefit from our faculty’s wealth of real-world experience, guiding you to success in and beyond the classroom.

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History

During a period of time when other higher education institutions offered programs that trained students to become managers, Augsburg saw the need for equity-minded leaders. From this observation, we developed a distinctive Master of Arts in Leadership degree and the leadership development model that drives the program.  The program’s hundreds of graduates can attest to the transformational difference it’s made in their careers, lives, and communities. Augsburg’s Master of Arts in Leadership program includes various disciplines within liberal arts that—like Augsburg’s undergrad programs—build skills in communication, problem-solving, and critical thinking, as well as increasing students’ self-confidence and ability to take informed risks.