The University of Delaware Collegiate Partnership Program

Drive tactical communication initiatives to help shape your organization's relationship with all audiences and stakeholders. With the completely online Master of Arts in Strategic Communication, you'll gain the skills to design and implement research for your organization, evaluate social media analytic data for effective communication campaign development, and more. Emerge from the program ready for career success in strategic communication, public relations, digital media, or social media management.

This 30-credit, 24-month program also offers two career-focused concentrations. Choose from:

1. Public Relations: Learn to plan and execute strategic public relations campaigns, understand the needs of varying client types, and craft messaging that is both persuasive and appropriate for public audiences.
2. Digital and Social Media: Gain the skills to set yourself apart in managing digital and social media, reaching target audiences with precision, and using data analytics to measure and improve your impact on business goals.

You also have the opportunity to choose your own electives to build a program that aligns with your personal and professional goals.

Add a powerful, innovative and AACSB-accredited online MBA program to your resume in as few as 16 months. UD’s online MBA is designed to fit your busy schedule: no business undergraduate degree requirement, GMAT and fee waivers available for qualified applicants, and fully online coursework. Ranked the #22 online MBA in the country by U.S. News & World Report, 2018.

Degree Options That Match Your Goals

1. Finance Concentration: You’ll study financial management, analysis and reporting, with added expertise in corporate, investment and international finance.
2. Healthcare Concentration and Major: Learn invaluable skills for operating in today’s health systems, including informatics, e-service and patient experience. Choose a major for deeper focus.
3. Business Analytics Concentration: Learn to integrate data science, business strategy, and management science to leverage assets, optimize outcomes, and predict future results.
4. Strategic Leadership Concentration: Learn the skills needed to influence others, manage change, set strategic direction, build teams, support networks, and more.
5. International Business Concentration: Focus on international business with studies in globalization and international financial management.
6. Customized: Combine any two or three degree options, or tailor your selected electives to your personal career needs.

The UD online MBA curriculum provides you with analytical tools, data and creative skills that improve business decision-making.

Prepare to lead in contemporary public service and nonprofit management with an online Master of Public Administration (MPA) degree from the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Delaware. Learn from experienced practitioners, develop your skills among highly active researchers, and get ready to serve the greater good in this NASPAA-accredited, 100%-online MPA program.

Join now and see why UD's MPA program was ranked a top 10 Best Online MPA Program by The Best Schools in 2018, and in the top 30 for Public Management and Leadership in U.S. News and World Report's "Best Grad Schools" in 2019.

You'll have the opportunity to:

• Stand alongside UD MPA alumni such as Delaware governor John Carney, and Melanie Ross Levin, director of outreach at the National Women's Law Center
• Study a curriculum developed by a faculty of practitioners in the field
• Explore the latest research on emergent needs in public service
• Take advantage of career services like a dedicated career counselor, experiential workshops and help with your résumé

Designated a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security, the University of Delaware is leading the cybersecurity field with the online M.S. in Cybersecurity.

This program combines foundational theory and hands-on practice to show you how to create secure systems and software that integrate defensive tactics in all stages of the process: design, execution and evaluation. You will:

• Build secure software, networks and systems from the ground up.
• Use forensic tools within virtual machine environments to prevent and disarm real-life modern cyber threats.
• Learn from active practitioners and researchers who are experienced in working with corporate and military systems.

Located between New York City and Washington, D.C., UD is home to the Cybersecurity Initiative, a center for government, business and academia to research, teach and develop solutions in cybersecurity. Benefit from UD’s position to secure yours as an in-demand specialist.

“Anyone designing computer systems must have a firm grasp on all aspects of cybersecurity.”

— Bradley Cain, Senior Architect, F5 Networks

A system’s design is only as strong as its security. Now there’s an online program specifically architected to arm you with the right skills. The online Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering helps you master skills taught in other ECE programs, as well as provides you with the critical insight to secure, protect and implement the systems you create. You’ll focus on the increasingly critical intersection of information processing and cybersecurity within electrical and computer engineering. Program topics include:

• Information processing, networks, and efficient algorithm design.
• Advanced wireless communications, Wi-Fi, and 3G/4G/5G cellular.
• Cybersecurity and cryptography strategies for electrical and computer engineers.

Build your knowledge of advanced theory and apply it in hands-on coursework to lead secure solution development for your systems, software and networks.