With an emergency management degree from MCNY, you’ll be prepared to begin—or advance—a career in the exciting, in-demand fields of emergency preparedness, homeland security, and business continuity. You’ll learn how to effectively coordinate available resources in a catastrophic event, and mitigate the loss of life, property, and operational capability following a natural, man-made, or technological disaster. MCNY’s accredited BA in Emergency Management and Business Continuity curriculum can be completed in two years and eight months. We also offer an AA degree in emergency management, which can be completed in 16 months.

The specialization of the BA in Security and Strategic Studies, in Emergency Management, focuses on the causes and possible reaction methods against all kinds of security challenges national and international. Learning how to plan and manage human capital and resources against a crisis, is important. The specialty courses will help you shape, comprehend, analyze and apply appropriate security and strategic knowledge management steps against security leveled crises.

The minor in Emergency Management allows students to explore the value of emergency planning and preparation for natural or man-made disasters and crises. Students will use activities to review the strategies used by various local, state, and federal organizations on response, mitigation, and recovery efforts when dealing with small to large scale emergencies and disasters. These activities will present students with real-world strategies developed to protect lives, property, and the environment.

East Georgia State College is a great place to continue your studies in Fire and Emergency Services Administration. Here, you’ll find: Great faculty, such as Beverley Walker, a former fire lieutenant with 25 years of fire and emergency service experience, and many years as an instructor and trainer in Georgia and at the National Fire Academy. An online learning environment, to meet the complex demands of the schedule of emergency services and aspiring public management professionals. An affordable way to continue your studies, with reasonable tuition, generous financial aid availability, and access to the HOPE Scholarship benefits. A combination of challenging coursework in fire and emergency services administration, public management, organizational behavior, and professional development to prepare you for a leadership role in the administration and management of an emergency services organization.

Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management is a relevant and timely major especially with the current and impending threat of universal terrorism, the impact of climate change and natural disasters, and the enhanced need to address issues related to public safety and national security. Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management is an innovative and interdisciplinary degree program that focuses on training students in areas that impact human welfare locally, nationally, and globally. The program has a distinctive emphasis on urban issues and environments and the role that ethics plays in how policies, politics, and practices shape the quality of life for human beings in our state, nation, and world.

This program introduces students to a broad range of technological and environmental risks with an emphasis on how social and physical factors interact in disasters. Graduates of the program are able to assist with all aspects of emergency management, including traditional preparedness and response activities as well as recovery efforts to help people affected by disasters get their lives back to normal, and mitigation planning to prevent future damages.

As an Emergency Medical Services (EMS) major at Franklin Pierce University you will study the field of rapid response from a social science perspective. Explore legal, political, and regulatory frameworks in EMS settings, as well as technology-based health applications and healthy work environments. Develop critical thinking and decision-making skills to effectively manage emergency situations.

Lyceums Faculty of Humanities is at the forefront of training and education in the field of public safety. The role that disaster and safety management plays in society cannot be underestimated.