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Business Administration
The Master of Business Administration program is designed to prepare graduates to successfully lead and manage organizations in a constantly changing environment. In both the for-profit and not-for-profit environments, today's executive is faced with a myriad of concerns ranging from ethical and human rights issues to globalization and environmental protection. The Salve Regina University Master of Business Administration curriculum provides the technical knowledge and skills to appreciate and address these and other critical contemporary issues. The program is directed toward developing leaders with a focus on ethics, organizational behavior, finance, economics, accounting and strategic management. Social purpose and workplace humanization are underlying program values aligned with the university's mission. This degree program is accredited by the International Assembly of Collegiate Business Education (IACBE).

Management
The Master of Science in Management program is designed to prepare graduates for successful leadership positions in a variety of organizations. In both the for-profit and not-for-profit environments, today's executive is faced with a myriad of concerns ranging from ethical and human rights issues to globalization and environmental protection. The Salve Regina University Master of Science in Management curriculum provides the technical knowledge and skills to appreciate and address these and other critical contemporary issues. The program is directed toward developing leaders with a focus on ethics, organizational behavior, human resource management, marketing management and legal issues in business. Social purpose and workplace humanization are underlying program values aligned with the university's mission. This degree program is accredited by the International Assembly of Collegiate Business Education (IACBE).

Health Services Administration
The Health Services Administration Master of Science program prepares professionals for the challenges of health services planning and delivery in a rapidly changing environment. The program structure develops knowledge and skills within the context of the university's commitment to Christian tradition and includes a sense of personal values and professional responsibility to better meet the needs of others. The curriculum allows students flexibility to tailor programs to suit individual needs and backgrounds. It is directed and taught by health service professionals and field specialists who blend theoretical foundations with practical applications in a variety of health care settings.

Holistic Counseling
The Holistic Counseling Master of Arts program is designed to develop counselors who value integration of body, mind, and spirit and who see integration as wholeness—an essential expression of personal health. The holistic counselor understands that personal health also depends upon individual experiences of connectedness with the human community and with the natural world that supports it. Holistic counselors are aware that many of today's mental, physical, and social illnesses stem from a lack of integration—disintegration—resulting in persons dissociated from themselves, the community, and the environment.

Holistic Leadership
Holistic Leadership is an integrative field of study. By combining helping skills, organizational learning, systems thinking, and holistic approaches, students will learn to become leaders within their own sphere.

Humanities
The Humanities Master of Arts program is an interdisciplinary program that seeks to foster a broad understanding of the qualitative aspects of life and culture through a study of disciplines such as history, literature, philosophy, and religion. The course of study is intended for individuals who want to broaden their intellectual and cultural horizons. It also serves as excellent preparation for the

Humanities Ph.D.
The Ph.D. offers the humanities as a foundation for understanding a world of accelerating and complex change. Students pursue doctoral research that makes a difference; exploring questions of human meaning in a dynamic study of the past, present and future. The Humanities Doctor of Philosophy degree was inaugurated in 1989 as an interdisciplinary investigation of the question, “What does it mean to be human in an age of advanced technology?” In one form or another, this question still commands attention in the twenty-first century. Broadly conceived the human-technology relationship remains at the heart of the curriculum allowing students to draw insights and integrate knowledge from a variety of fields: religion, philosophy and ethics; art, literature and new media; history, politics and cultural theory.  

International Relations
The curriculum and content of the International Relations Program is a reflection of the university's mission regarding justice, and the increasing need to envision international political behavior in the framework of justice. In its own capacity and within the university's mission, the International Relations Program promotes international and world harmony through the inculcation of the concept of justice in the analysis of international and world politics.

Administration of Justice
Salve Regina University provides programs related to justice and the administration of justice in two ways that respond directly to the interests, knowledge requirements and needs of professionals in the field of law enforcement and justice. One area relates to supervisory leadership requirements of law enforcement personnel as they move forward in their careers; the other area relates to the need to understand global, multicultural and international issues for personnel working in federal offices as well as those at the local, regional, and state level dealing with homeland security issues.

Rehabilitation Counseling
The Rehabilitation Counseling Master of Arts program is committed to offering a professional program in counseling that encourages students to seek wisdom through study as well as service and to promote universal justice. The program has been developed with the belief that opportunities for people with disabilities (including physical, psychological, developmental, cognitive, sensory, behavioral, and substance abuse) should equal those of all other individuals. The program supports the premise that all individuals, including those with disabilities, are vital resources for the betterment of society.