Program Overview
Credits: 33 Credits
With our Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies program, you can complete your graduate degree with your own academic and career interests in mind, and at your own pace. This personalized program empowers you to design your own curriculum and pick relevant courses from a wide range of Niagara University offerings.
Our Interdisciplinary Studies program also has two specialized focus tracks: Disaster/Emergency Management and National Security, or Social Justice, designed for you to enhance your knowledge while pursuing impactful careers and addressing critical challenges.
Flexibility
Choose between fully online or in-person class formats with a customized curriculum relevant to your interests, and at your own pace.
Capstone Project
A unique feature of our program is the two-semester Capstone project, allowing you to identify an issue to research, design, and test for potential solutions.
Affordability
We offer more than 60 scholarships, awards, and campus employment opportunities for well-qualified, matriculated graduate students.
Elevate Your Career
What you’ll study at Niagara
This degree requires 33 credit hours of study in a diverse mix of courses, from methodological seminars to thematic courses, and independent studies to internships.
For students studying the Disaster/Emergency Management and National Security track, your learning will center around topics of leadership, decision making, and policy development. Your studies will include training in field knowledge and real-world preparatory environments, and graduates will hone their ability to implement evergreen best practices in multi-agency response environments.
Students studying social justice will teach you to approach issues like race, equality, religion, poverty, activism, and more from various disciplinary and academic perspectives. Courses will examine social justice through its historical, political, religious, economic, and philosophical dimensions.
Find Your Best Self
Knowledge, Experience, and Skill Development
Independence.
Leadership.
Disciplinary study.
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NU offers rolling admissions, which means that you can apply at any time for the upcoming semester. Applications are reviewed as they come in, and students are typically notified of an admission decision in 3-4 weeks. What’s stopping you?
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