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Master of Arts in Management

with a Specialization in

Social and Sustainable Management (MAM-SSM)

McKenna Hall
sbge-grad@spu.edu | 206-281-2753
spu.edu/sbge

Faculty

The Social and Sustainable Management track in the MA in Management at Seattle Pacific University is an 12-month immersion into the basics of business and leadership. This MA program track offers you a Christian understanding of business, ethics, responsibility, and sustainability — stewardship of people, planet, and profits — while providing professional and career development activities.

This program enables recent graduates with liberal arts, science, or engineering majors and no significant work experience to develop the core business and professional knowledge and skills that business, NGO, and nonprofit organizations all highly value — the skills needed to jump-start entry into business or social entrepreneurship. Most importantly, this program helps students translate their passion for service and stewardship into action.

The MAM-SSM track uses an innovative modular curriculum. Your learning is accomplished together with a select cohort through challenging, hands-on, real-world problem-solving, as well as projects and connections with business and social enterprise community partners. You will experience a mix of classroom, independent, team, online learning, a study abroad experience, and a cooperative learning/internship.

Seattle Pacific's School of Business, Government, and Economics (SBGE) is committed to providing an applied, experiential, and collaborative learning environment in which business and Christian faith, ethics, and character are integrated. The objectives of the Social and Sustainable Management track enables you to participate in creating sustainable value and responsible businesses that contribute to human flourishing as principled business professionals or social entrepreneurs.

You will develop:

• An integrated, cross-functional understanding of business as a system with fluency in fundamental business concepts and processes across the range of business disciplines.
• A Christian understanding of responsible, ethical, and sustainable business that serves customers, employees, and the community and cares for creation.
• Ability to apply these understandings to complex, real business situations in pursuit of human flourishing.
• The attitudes, commitments, skills, and knowledge necessary for entering business as responsible professionals who are
• Capable of developing effective business relationships, and working and communicating with others.
• Capable of initiating and organizing business activities and projects
• Capable of behaving as business professionals in business contexts

PROGRAM CURRICULUM

The MAM-SSM program is comprised of five integrated modules organized around the business decision-making process: analysis, planning and design, operations, and renewal.

The themes of business fundamentals, responsibility and sustainability, and professional skill development are woven throughout the program. You learn through challenging, hands-on, real-world problem-solving, cases and projects, connections with business and social enterprise community partners and a mix of classroom, independent, team, online learning, a study abroad experience, and a cooperative learning/internship experience.

ADMISSION

To apply, you must have at least a 3.0 GPA in your undergraduate studies and have, or be pursuing, a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.

No work experience is required. (Note: Those with significant post-baccalaureate work experience will likely prefer the MBA program.)

GMAT or GRE test scores are not required for applicants who demonstrate strong alignment with the program’s goals and who have at least a 3.0 cumulative undergraduate GPA. (Scores may be requested from those who do not meet the minimum requirements for admission.)

Submission of a résumé, and responses to the essay questions listed in the application are also required in addition to the completed application.

Applicants whose native language is not English also need to submit scores on the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language). (TOEFL information and test registration is available at . Scores above 92 on the iBT version are preferred.) (Note: PTE, TOEIC, or IELTS scores may be submitted. Applicants who have completed all of their undergraduate studies at an English-speaking college or university are exempt from the TOEFL requirement.)

APPLICATION DEADLINES

Admission to the cohort will occur in waves and will remain open until classes begin on a space available basis. Early Action applications are due by January 15. Second-wave applications are due by April 15. Send items being submitted in hard copy to:

Graduate Program Coordinator
SPU School of Business, Government and Economics
3307 3rd Ave W., Suite 201
Seattle, WA 98119-1950

CONTACT

Admission materials should be directed to the Graduate Center. If you have questions, contact the SBGE Graduate Program Coordinator:

• Phone: 206-281-2753
• Fax: 206-281-2733
• Email: sbge-grad@spu.edu or requested at

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