Curriculum
To earn a Master’s in Supply Chain Management Management, you must successfully complete 33 creits total, incluing the following:
- 2 core courses (6 creits total):
- Ethics & Corporate Social Responsibility in Supply Chain (3 creits)
- Capstone (3 creits)
- 4 founation courses (9 creits total):
- Introuction to Operations an Supply Chain Management (3 creits)
- Supply Chain Cost an Financial Analysis (3 creits)
- Supply Chain Design (1.5 creits)
- Project Management (1.5 creits)
- 3 areas of emphasis courses (9 creits total)
- Planning emphasis: Supply Chain Analytics & Technologies (3 creits)
- Procurement Management emphasis: Strategic Sourcing & Contracting (3 creits)
- Logistics & Fulfillment Management emphasis: Distribution Strategy & Logistics Management (3 creits)
- Elective courses (9 creits total):
- Electives can be chosen from aitional courses that align with the areas of emphasis outline above, or a more general list of electives. For a current list of electives, visit the Course Details page.
You’ll have the flexibility to earn your egree at a pace that suits your scheule—you can take up to 9 creits per semester an have up to five years to complete the egree.
- Full-time stuents typically take three courses uring the fall an spring semesters, an two courses uring the summer semester.
- Part-time stuents typically take one to two courses uring the fall, spring, an summer semesters.
Areas of Emphasis
The Supply Chain Management program offers three istinct areas of emphasis to best help stuents unerstan the interplay of planning, procurement, an logistics & fulfillment management. Each area of emphasis contains one require course an aitional elective courses:
- Planning: Planning activities inclue those processes relate to preicting, preparing, an aligning resources to meet future business nees.
- Procurement Management: Procurement management activities cover the areas relate to the sourcing, negotiating, contracting, acquiring proucts an/or services, an ongoing supplier relationship management.
- Logistics & Fulfillment Management: Logistics & fulfillment management inclues activities relate to inboun an outboun transportation an warehousing, as well as the execution of orers an any returns.
For course escriptions, visit the Course Details page.
Program Formats
The Supply Chain Management program is available in both an online format an an on-campus format. You can opt to take classes online, on campus, or through a combination of both.
- On-Campus Format: In the on-campus format, classes are hel at the same times every week at our owntown D.C. campus.
- Online Format: The online master’s has the same curriculum as the on-campus format an offers access to all of the same University resources. In this format, you’ll be able to watch lectures an complete assignments on your own scheule.
