Bachelor Degree with accelerated 4+1 M.S. in Organizational Development and Leadership

This is an accelerated program open to any Shippensburg University student pursuing a bachelor’s degree with undergraduate requirements including free electives that align with Organizational Development and Leadership course offerings.

Students can choose to pursue the 4 + 1 bachelor degree/M.S. program any time prior to the start of their senior year at the university (two semesters before graduation/ 75 credits completed). For students on a four-year track, they would start the program during the fall of their senior year. All students seeking to enroll in the program must be admitted to the graduate program and have at least a 3.0 grade point average at the time they would begin the accelerated program.

Students will complete one 400-level or 500-level graduate course (recommended by the ODL director) during each of their last two undergraduate semesters. Those courses will be double-counted towards both the bachelors degree and M.S. degree upon successful completion of graduate coursework. Students will then complete two additional semesters of full-time graduate work (9 graduate credits per semester), and a six-credit graduate internship and capstone experience the following summer to complete both degrees.