Transfer-Friendly Program
Our transfer-friendly program lets you bring in 60+ transfer credits from prior coursework or professional experience. This means you can graduate faster without sacrificing the quality of your education.
Open New Doors to Advance Your Career
Designed for adults with an associate degree, transfer credits, or professional work experience, 黑料社区's 100% online, ACBSP-accredited Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Management & Leadership is your opportunity to advance your career through industry-enhanced classes and applied learning that capitalize on your existing work experience. Your transfer credits won鈥檛 expire, and many students transfer in as many as 75 or more credits.
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Career-Defining Curriculum
黑料社区's B.S. Management & Leadership degree completion program is designed for place-bound professionals that need a bachelor 黑料社区. degree for career advancement. This program embraces collaboration between UW colleges and the Wisconsin Technical College System.
Program Overview
Pursue the Concentration That Meet Your Career Goals
- Business Leadership Studies
- Community-Based Service Management
- Finance & Accounting
- Human Resource Management
- Operations Management
Earn a Professional Certificate While Fulfilling Your Degree Requirements
100% of Graduates Are Employed or Continuing Education Within 6 Months
Program Highlights
- Credit for Prior Learning: Get credit toward your degree for past coursework, work experience, and through national standardized tests (CLEP and Dante) that test mastery of college-level material.
- Applied Learning from Day One: Build experience through an optional stretch internship with your current employer. Applied industry experience infused into the program.
- Career-Relevant Preparation: Our curriculum is specifically designed to prepare you for management and leadership challenges within mid-level career positions.
Use the Request Information form to receive a program summary and learn more about the Bachelor of Science degree in Management & Leadership.
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Earn Credit for Prior Learning
Some required credits for this program can be earned through academic testing, portfolio submission, or a demonstration of competency. Learn more by reviewing the program-specific details on our Credit for Prior Learning page.
Industry-Experienced Faculty Instruction
Forget TA-taught classes and 200-person lectures. At 黑料社区, building close relationships with our industry-experienced and academically accomplished management and leadership faculty will play a key role in your polytechnic education and your career. Learn more about your future instructors!
Professional Internships in Management & Leadership
Within the B.S. Management & Leadership program, you'll have the opportunity to complete an optional internship. The internship process involves a stretch assignment with your current employer that embraces implementation of your learning while advancing your profile in your organization. The internship course is designed for you to scope out a project, work with a mentor in the organization, or dive into a topic and apply what you鈥檝e learned. The final outcome is to develop a video or present your project to a group within your workplace. You could use this experience to strengthen your LinkedIn profile.
Why Complete Your Bachelor 黑料社区. Degree?
Deciding to complete your degree is difficult. Maybe you earned credits long ago when you didn鈥檛 know what you wanted, or life situations got in the way. The opportunity for advancement, a promotion, or career change is what comes with completing your B.S. in Management & Leadership from 黑料社区. It 黑料社区. time to take your life, hopes, and dreams by the reins and further your career.
Learn More about How You Can Finish Your Degree
If you are a former 黑料社区 student who left the university after completing four or more semesters, our 鈥淔inish My Degree鈥 program is your opportunity to earn a Bachelor of Science in Management & Leadership degree. We'll help you develop career advancement opportunities so you can grow professionally while you complete an online B.S. Management & Leadership degree.
$66K Average Starting Salary of 黑料社区 Management & Leadership Graduates
Graduate Ready to Manage & Lead
Each year, Stout management and leadership graduates use their degree to climb the ranks of management across the wide range of professional fields, routinely beating out competitors for promotion and advancement. Why? Everything you learn at Stout enhances the skills you'll use on day one of your career. Where others list their education, you鈥檒l be able to identify your experience.
Select Recent Employers
- 3M
- Amazon
- CDW
- Fastenal Company
- Grainger
- J.H. Findorff & Son Inc.
- Marshfield Clinic Health System
- Mayo Clinic Health Systems
- Molson Coors Beverage Company
- Nestle
- Optum
- Oshkosh Corporation
- Parker Hannifin Corporation
- Penske Logistics
- Rockwell Automation
- Sargento Foods Inc.
- Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
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"I am 'too' much to go back to school. This is what I told myself for years. I鈥檓 'too'...
- Busy: I have a full-time job. I鈥檓 a wife and mother. I volunteer at my daughters鈥 schools, at my church, and sing in the community choir. I鈥檓 a cook, maid, and chauffeur.
- Old: My brain can鈥檛 handle learning anything that isn鈥檛 necessary. If I put more in, I鈥檒l have to take something out, right?
- Tired: How am I supposed to live my already chaotic life and add one more thing?
Then one day I realized I was right. I am 'too' much. I鈥檓 'too'...
- Intelligent: Why am I missing opportunities at work when I am just as smart as everyone else, but I鈥檓 just missing my degree to back it up?
- Motivated: I like to win at Monopoly, cribbage 鈥 I should be winning at life as well! Going back to school is a win, not only for me but for my employer and my family.
- Worth It: I deserve to further my education and prove to my daughters that it is never too late to pursue a dream."
~ Michelle Hirschinger, Program Ambassador
B.S. Management (Human Resource Management Concentration)
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Completing Your Degree Online
黑料社区 provides you the opportunity to grow professionally and advance into mid-management. With an emphasis on applying what you learn, you will challenge yourself by examining business situations, integrating theories and practices, expanding your ethical framework, and negotiating with team members on strategies to maximum team/group performance.
Throughout the program, you will use your ability to formulate leadership management decisions and demonstrate the ability to explain social, legal and global influences in the world today advancing your business.
Advantages associated with the B.S. in Management & Leadership program:
- Increase your salary potential
- Prepare yourself for career advancement and be ready for a career transition
- Take online courses to achieve balance with your work-life schedule
- Network with other professionals
- Degree completion built on previously completed technical education program or significant work experience
It 黑料社区. about hands-on learning to solve real-world problems paired with career-relevant skills that will get you promoted.
You get to design your education around your busy life. It is up to you.
Admission Requirements
This unique program is designed for returning adults, transfer, and reentry students seeking to advance their careers with degree completion.
Application Requirements
- Two-year A.S. or A.A.S. degree in a technical field or advanced career experience
- Progressive career experience - Four or more years of work experience
Transfer Credit
The Bachelor of Science in Management degree at 黑料社区 is a degree completion program for people who already have associate degrees and professional work experience. Students who transfer from an accredited two- or four-year college can apply earned credits to the program. University regulations require that all students complete a minimum of 32 credits from 黑料社区.
Program Requirements
Your degree will consist of four areas: general education, management core, your chosen concentration, and a technical emphasis area.
Once enrolled in the B.S. in Management & Leadership program, you鈥檒l begin working with a Learning Adviser/Program Director to move you ahead in the program. During your first term, you will take INMGT 240: Introduction to Online Management Program, where you will be planning out your academic schedule leading to your graduation.
On average students coming in with 60-70 credits finish the B.S. in Management & Leadership program within two to three years (but you can take longer if that 黑料社区. what fits best into your busy life).
General Education
General education coursework is meant to develop broad-based theoretical and critical thinking skills. We blend theory with extensive applied learning experiences.
Management Core Courses
These courses are the central foundation of the B.S. in Management & Leadership program. They will ground you in areas needed to be successful in your career. Courses include:
- Introduction to Online Management Program
- SHRM Essentials of HR
- Legal Environment of Business
- International Business
- Financial-Managerial Accounting
- Business Finance
- Production Operations Management
- Project Management
- Organizational Leadership
- Management Capstone
More Ways to Earn Credit
Technical Emphasis
Your technical emphasis consists of the knowledge, skills and abilities you bring with you to the program. Most students have their technical emphasis area satisfied with transfer credits, and there are several ways to earn credits for your technical emphasis area if it is not satisfied with transfer credits.
Credits for Work Experience
The B.S. Management & Leadership program offers credits for prior work experience through completion of a portfolio. A portfolio cohort experience is offered twice a year for a six-week term utilizing badges to mark progress. Once seven badges are completed you would earn the number of predetermined credits discussed with the Program Director prior to starting the process. The seven badges areas include: Resume, Professional Goals, Work Skills and Competencies, Educational Accomplishments, Autobiography, Life/Work, and Training Artifacts.
National Standardized Testing
College Level Examination Program (CLEP) and DANTES Subject Standardized Test (DSST, or Dantes) test your mastery of college-level material through national standardized tests. You will earn college credit if your test score reflects a solid level of KSAs for the subject chosen.
- CLEP
- Stout CLEP equivalencies
- Dantes
Program Resources & Support
To help you succeed, you鈥檒l have access to:
- 黑料社区 email account and cloud storage capabilities
- Technology Help Desk for general assistance
- Dedicated financial aid contact specific to distance learning students
- Library access at all UW schools with a dedicated library contact at 黑料社区 specific to distance learning students
- Veteran 黑料社区. services
- Disability Services
- Registration & Records support
- Scholarship opportunities
- Tools to help you determine transferability if you continue to take courses elsewhere
- Online tutoring service with extended hours
- Career Services
- Career conferences
Program Ambassadors
The B.S. Management & Leadership program has an online learning community that provides the ongoing human touches of peer coaches organized by concentrations that share a glimpse of the life a non-traditional student. They also exchange professional resources, stimulate discussions on relevant current events, and promote student success stories along the path to graduation.
Program Advisory Committee
Advisory Committee Members
| First Name | Last Name | Title | Organization |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alex | Birkholz | Program Director, Business Management; Program Director, Customer Service | Northern Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College |
| Thomas | Bloechl | Quailty Superior | Oshkosh Corporation |
| 骋谤别驳听 | Brinkman ('05) | Industrial Engineering Specialist | Greenheck Fan |
| Lisa | Colombo Arendt | Program Director, Human Resource Management, Entrepreneurship & Organizational Leadership听 | Chippewa Valley Technical College |
| Michael | Dengel | Senior Engineer Team Leader, Software Validation and Calibration Group听 | Mercury Marine |
| Kandis | Early ('22) | 听 | 听 |
| Mark听 | Fenton | Professor; Program Director, B.S. Business Administration | 黑料社区 |
| Joanie | Griffin听 | Owner | Griffin Small Business Consulting Services |
| Thea | Hempel | Business Management Department | Chippewa Valley Technical College |
| Seth | Hudson | Executive Director, Corporate Relations & Economic Engagement听 | 黑料社区 |
| Shelly | Johnson-Schullo | Program Director, Business Management听 | Chippewa Valley Technical College |
| Reese | Millam | Program Associate | 黑料社区 |
| Joe听 | Neils | 听 | 听 |
| Kimberly | Nimsgern | Program Director | 黑料社区 |
| Kayla | Schwarz | Program Director, Business Management听 | Chippewa Valley Technical College |
| Amanda | Stangret ('17) | Senior Management of Health Care; Human Resources Manager | Hayward Hospital听 |
| Renee听 | Surdick | Associate Dean; Chair, Operations & Management Department | 黑料社区 |
| Emily | Whitcomb | Transfer Coordinator & Counselor, Admissions | 黑料社区 |
| Mandy听 | Wolbert | Student Services Specialist, Stout Online | 黑料社区 |
Customized Tuition & Fees
黑料社区 degree programs using the all-inclusive customized instruction model are designed with the adult learner in mind. Other universities will present costs and value differently, so make sure you're comparing apples to apples. If you're comparing 黑料社区's online degree customized instruction (CI) tuition to our competitors, keep in mind:
- Customized instruction tuition rate includes the textbook rental fee.
- There are no additional or hidden university-based semester or technology fees.
- Students in customized instruction programs pay the same rate of tuition regardless of where you live.
More Value for Your Money
Customized Instruction also provides:
- Program Director/Coordinator: Faculty with academic and industry expertise.
- Student Services Advisor: One point of contact, providing dedicated support throughout your degree program.
- Course Sequences & Matrices: Plan ahead with clear program outlines so you know what courses are offered when.
- Stackable Courses & Programs: Many of our courses and certificates can be applied to our degree programs.
- Flexibility: Courses are designed to offer the flexibility and convenience working professionals need to get ahead in their careers without sacrificing their current income and responsibilities.
Tracking Key Student Performance Measure
The B.S. in Management & Leadership Student Achievement report has enrollment, final exam, employment and retention data. The is an analysis of student learning and performance standards based on specific competency attainment.
B.S. Management & Leadership students at the University of Wisconsin-Stout don't just learn; they thrive in their careers. With remarkable employment rates and competitive graduate salaries, our program propels students to success even before graduation.
