Overview

You’ll acquire a sophisticated understanding of organizational development, leadership theory, talent management, evidence-based practice, and program evaluation — all while developing your own critical thinking, collaboration, interpersonal, research, and leadership skills.

You’ll leave Vanderbilt with the necessary skillset to become a thought leader and take on principal roles as managers, consultants, military officers, policymakers, nonprofit and for-profit executives, educators, and entrepreneurs across various fields of expertise.

Through the Leadership and Organizational Performance program at Vanderbilt University, you’ll learn how to cultivate evidence-based approaches to decisionmaking and solution-finding. Our courses emphasize applying course content to real-world problems and projects, allowing students to go a step beyond simply understanding a theory.

Core Competencies

Specifically, you will build competencies in leadership and organizational performance that allow you to:

Build effective teams that share wins and successes

Manage conflict to find common ground and gain cooperation with minimum noise

Generate creative, new ideas that add value to an organization

Navigate ambiguity in a confident manner when facing risk and uncertainty

Make quality decisions based on analysis, experience, and judgment

Manage innovation by bringing creative ideas to market

Relate well to all kinds of people inside and outside an organization

Learn on the fly when facing new problems

Communicate a compelling and inspired vision or sense of purpose

Motivate others to do their best

Build comprehensive plans that set clear goals and objectives

Solve problems to find effective solutions that go beyond the obvious

Manage processes to efficiently accomplish the tasks at hand

Anticipate future consequences and trends accurately

Write clearly and succinctly in a variety of communication settings and styles

Develop the business acumen needed to be an effective contributor and leader of an organization

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Leading Organizations

Learning Organizations

Strategy and Analytics

Evaluation of Organisational Performance

Education Policy and School Reform

American Education History & Policy

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 12 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-08-20 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-02-03 00:00:00

Language

English

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TOEFL^® IBT

100

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Credits

36 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Nashville, United States

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

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Required

English requirements

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130

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100

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Other requirements

General requirements

Submitted online application

Transcript(s) from prior undergraduate and graduate work.

Two letters of recommendation are required, three preferred for our master's programs.

Statement of purpose

Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores

International applicants must submit all of the above, plus the following: TOEFL or IELTS scores are required of all international applicants

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

86580 USD / year

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86580 USD / year

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Domestic

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In-State

86580 USD / year

≈ 86580 USD / year

Living costs

Nashville

United States

1183 - 2197 USD / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

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