Master of Arts in Strategic Leadership
Arden Hills, USA
MA
DURATION
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2026
STUDY FORMAT
Key Summary
About: Bethel University’s Master of Arts in Strategic Leadership blends evangelical faith with leadership practice. The programme helps you advance your career by teaching strategic thinking, change management, and how to balance innovation with ongoing operations. You’ll develop self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and competencies to lead people and organizations into new directions. Bethel’s Christian higher education tradition dates to 1871 and expects leaders to integrate faith-informed values across work and service.
Career Outcomes: Graduates move into roles such as executive leader, nonprofit director, program or operations manager, or church / ministry leader, applying strategic, people, and change skills to drive impact.
Leadership is about more than taking the right path. It’s about guiding others to a better future.
Bethel’s M.A. in Strategic Leadership program will help you advance your career and prepare you as a world-class leader by equipping you with the knowledge and skills you need to excel. You’ll learn to integrate your experience in your field with the most effective leadership skills so you can shape the future of an organization, balance innovation and ongoing processes to meet goals, effectively respond to opportunities and challenges, and become a catalyst for change.
In the strategic leadership program, you’ll build on your unique skills and experiences to become a leader of greater influence. Our curriculum helps leaders develop the self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and competencies necessary to lead people and organizations in new directions.
