Online Master of Arts in Management (MA)
Learn how effective leaders manage personnel and make informed business decisions. This management program at American Military University (AMU) examines the advanced strategies that organizations use to reach their objectives across the public, private, and defense sectors.
About AMU’s Online Master’s Degree Program in Management
This online master's in management equips students with career-relevant skills as they learn how effective managers lead organizations through periods of change and uncertainty. Coursework examines how visionary decision-makers collect and interpret data to produce actionable insights into the competitive business landscape.
AMU's curriculum also explores the complexities of organizational behavior and managing cross-cultural teams. Students discuss how successful business leaders motivate employees and develop strategic plans to help organizations reach their goals. The program serves current and aspiring managers across private industries, government agencies, and military settings.
Assignments incorporate case studies that reflect the real-world challenges today’s organizational leaders face. To conclude their studies, students prepare capstone portfolios demonstrating their business acumen and problem-solving abilities.
The MA in Management is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs.
Spanish-language learners may complete the management program through select courses in the general concentration.
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Management Degree Concentrations
AMU’s degree concentrations allow students pursuing this master’s degree to tailor their learning to match their unique interests. Each concentration focuses on a specific area of business management with coursework that emphasizes career-readiness.
Select a concentration to learn more.
About the Concentration
This general concentration allows you to select from other concentration courses offered in this program.
Program Objectives
Upon successful completion of this concentration, the student will be able to:
- Develop a strategic business plan applying the theories and practices of management and planning for a particular organizational setting.
- Examine complex organizations from a level of analysis perspective, including the individual, interpersonal, group, and organizational level perspectives.
- Evaluate management issues in the context of ethical, technological, structural, cultural, human and environmental factors.
About the Concentration
The concentration in Business Project Management enhances the student’s understanding of how businesses evolve, adapt, and maintain an enterprise through project management. Through this concentration, students will be introduced to the theories, concepts, and practices that align with project management. Students will develop a skill set to track and monitor projects.
Companies depend on project management to stay competitive in developing new offerings, determining the technology needed within the enterprise, updating processes and procedures, and implementing projects for customers.
The concentration is designed for business professionals and military personnel interested in project management within the business environment.
Program Objectives
Upon successful completion of this concentration, the student will be able to:
- Evaluate how to properly monitor a project.
- Articulate why a project needs to align with the organization’s strategic plan.
- Analyze the project costs and actuals.
- Create a risk management plan.
- Build a project schedule that integrates the various parts of the project to define the critical path
- Integrate the various parts of the project to determine the health of the project through cost/schedule metrics.
- Articulate the ethical and legal aspects of project management.
- Analyze the various business tools used to define quality control and quality assurance.
About the Concentration
Focuses on key concepts and principles of being a successful entrepreneur/intrapreneur or small business owner. You will examine leadership practices, feasibility of ideas, funding, and customer service specific to a small business.
Program Objectives
Upon successful completion of this concentration, the student will be able to:
- Develop an idea for a new business venture.
- Use various methods to critically evaluate specific operational functions.
- Determine your target market and market segmentation.
- Create a marketing plan for your venture.
About the Concentration
Compares various managerial approaches to employment law. Discusses rewards systems, measurement of employee performance, and other compensation packages. Probes policies and procedures involving legislative, regulatory, and organizational issues affecting human resource management in a global workforce. Topics include workplace safety and the recruitment, development, and training of human capital.
Program Objectives
Upon successful completion of this concentration, the student will be able to:
- Compare and contrast various managerial approaches to employment law.
- Evaluate the strategic factors influencing the various levels of rewards systems in the marketplace.
- Assess methods used to measure performance and determine pay level and associated compensation packages.
- Analyze the role and function of the Senior Human Resource Professional in the development and implementation of policies and procedures encompassing legislative, regulatory, and organizational issues affecting the management of human resources in today’s global workforce.
About the Concentration
This concentration focuses on meeting industry needs for IT managers in order to manage cost, time, scope, quality, risk, and people to ensure that projects come in on time and under budget. It also addresses strategic planning and business systems analysis.
Program Objectives
Upon successful completion of this concentration, the student will be able to:
- Evaluate the principles and practices for organizing, allocating, and managing project resources.
- Analyze the project management framework, including the stakeholders, domains, phases, processes, integration, and lifecycle.
- Examine the potential complexities and pitfalls in initiating and closing projects, and assess methods to mitigate this risk.
- Evaluate the unique challenges in managing the scope, time, and cost of Information Technology projects.
- Examine various project cost models and analyze the principles of earned value management (EVM).
- Assess the principles, strategies, challenges, and measures for managing quality and risk on IT projects.
- Analyze the phases, procedures, deliverables, and best practices for business systems analysis.
About the Concentration
The concentration in Organizational Crisis Management covers crisis management concepts and activities from the organizational leader’s perspective. The courses in the concentration cover organizational change, risk management, organizational processes related to crisis management, and leadership roles in crisis management.
Program Objectives
Upon successful completion of this concentration, the student will be able to:
- Establish protocols for crisis management communication as it relates to the organization.
- Recommend organizational crisis planning strategies.
- Evaluate processes for continuity planning.
- Explain the impact on the organization of poor crisis planning.
- Describe the role of leadership in organizational crisis management.
About the Concentration
Examines various leadership theories and models used by contemporary leaders in management. Looks at the effective leader’s role in the workplace as it relates to decision making, conflict resolution, motivation, and risk taking. Addresses contemporary leadership theories and models to develop and nurture followership, varied workplace settings, ethics, motivation, and knowledge management.
Program Objectives
Upon successful completion of this concentration, the student will be able to:
- Evaluate various leadership theories and models used by contemporary leaders in the field of management to develop and nurture followership.
- Assess leadership approaches to a variety of workplace settings, ethics, motivation, and knowledge management.
- Examine the roles and functions of an effective leader in today’s workplace as it relates to the areas of decision making, conflict resolution, motivation, and risk taking.
About the Concentration
Addresses the management of public organizations and interpersonal relationships at the federal, state, and local levels. Various positions and issues involving politics, policy, economics, administration, and management in the public sector are covered. Topics include human resource strategy and the role of federal, state, and local public health agencies.
Program Objectives
Upon successful completion of this concentration, the student will be able to:
- Apply theories and approaches to managing public organizations and administering federal, state, and local levels and evaluate the interpersonal relationships among these levels of government.
- Evaluate positions and issues that intersect the dynamics of politics, policy, economics, administration and management in the public sector.
- Analyze public policy initiatives from political and administrative aspects as to their intentions, achievable aims and outcomes.
About the Concentration
This concentration focuses on developing a business plan for a strategic consulting practice, assessing organization and business consulting models, and presenting recommendations on improving an organization’s practices and processes. Topics include interpersonal relations, group behavior, and managing individuals and groups in a virtual environment.
Program Objectives
Upon successful completion of this concentration, the student will be able to:
- Implement a change management program in an organization.
- Assess the systems and processes in an organization when addressing strategic, organizational and managerial challenges.
- Present senior management with recommendations on how to improve an organization’s practices and processes.
- Lead a project on innovation.
Discover How This Management Degree Can Help You Pursue Your Goals
AMU's management degree program examines the various duties and functions that organizational leaders oversee. Courses address how today’s business environment presents complex challenges, and students discuss best practices for leading strategic initiatives.
Students also:
- Conduct research on a business management problem, collect and analyze data, and communicate findings using qualitative and quantitative methods
- Develop a strategic business plan
- Evaluate management issues considering ethical, technological, structural, cultural, human, and environmental factors
- Apply leadership and management concepts and practices to address the challenges of a global organization
- Prepare ePortfolios to demonstrate their learning
Students pursuing this management master’s degree will develop proficiency in the data analysis techniques that effective leaders use to make strategic business decisions. Coursework sharpens critical-thinking skills and problem-solving abilities to help prepare learners for the real-world challenges of leading private, public, and defense organizations.
Graduates may have potential career opportunities as:
- Operations managers or program managers, who oversee personnel, resources, and initiatives and may work within federal and defense organizations
- Administrative services or workforce managers, who coordinate administrative, staffing, and operational functions within service organizations
- Management analysts, who may work within government or defense-related organizations and evaluate organizational processes to identify opportunities for improvement
Degree-holders may also pursue continued professional development in management or a related field.
AMU’s management master’s degree program emphasizes critical thinking and strategic decision-making. Through case study analyses and research-based assignments, students learn how visionary leaders translate data into actionable plans.
Graduates will also be able to:
- Apply management principles to support organizational readiness and mission effectiveness
- Evaluate policy, governance, and regulatory frameworks that influence public-sector management
- Analyze operational and workforce data to support planning and resource allocation
- Lead change management and organizational improvement initiatives within structured environments
- Apply ethical decision-making frameworks relevant to military and federal organizations
- Prepare structured briefings and reports aligned with chain-of-command requests
Explore AMU’s Management Curriculum
Students who pursue this master's in management will examine how effective leaders apply their knowledge of organizational behavior to real-world scenarios. Core courses focus on best practices for engaging and motivating cross-cultural teams.
The program also includes degree concentrations that explore specialized subject areas, such as crisis management. Coursework builds career-relevant skills as students learn how transformational leaders make informed business decisions. Students conclude the program with a capstone course and prepare ePortfolios demonstrating their ability to foster organizational excellence.
Spanish language learners may complete this course in Spanish.
Spanish language learners may complete this course in Spanish.
Develop Meaningful Connections While Earning Your Master’s in Management
AMU's dozens of online clubs and organizations bring students, faculty, and alumni together beyond the virtual classroom. Groups such as the Society for Human Resource Management and the Delta Mu Delta Honor Society may be especially well-suited to students pursuing the Master of Arts in Management.
The University also hosts clubs for servicemembers, veterans, and military spouses, in addition to a wide selection of social and cultural organizations. Learn more about student life at American Military University.
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- Students are required to take BUSN604 as their first required course. If you have a bachelor's degree that is accredited by ACBSP, AACSB, or IACBE, you are NOT required to take the course listed above, and instead may take one graduate-level elective course.
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Learn More About AMU’s Master’s in Management Degree
Pursuing a master's degree in management can be a practical choice if you want to strengthen your leadership skills and deepen your understanding of business strategy. Courses examine how managers build cohesive teams and guide organizations toward their long-term goals.
AMU's management curriculum also explores the nuances of business communication and teaches students how to apply leadership theories to real-world scenarios. Students sharpen their problem-solving skills as they learn how to manage organizational change and motivate cross-cultural teams.
This master’s degree in management explores how visionary leaders manage and motivate teams to create organizational excellence. Students also discuss how to craft effective business communications and make strategic business decisions. Coursework includes case study analyses and research-based assignments that help sharpen critical-thinking skills.
AMU’s curriculum includes degree concentrations as well, which allow learners to study specialized fields, such as crisis management.
Yes. You do not need a business degree to pursue this MA in Management, but your bachelor’s degree must be from an institution whose accreditation is recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation.
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Yes. AMU's management master's degree offers numerous concentrations that allow students to explore their interests through coursework that emphasizes specialized business knowledge.
Each concentration connects management theories to specific, real-world organizational challenges. Courses are designed to equip learners with career-relevant skills in their chosen areas of study.
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