Master of Science in Museum Leadership

Drexel's Museum Leadership program prepares future leaders to embrace the opportunities and challenges of the evolving museum landscape. Our broad conception of the field includes art, science, history, and cultural museums, living collections such as zoos, arboreta, and aquariums, and historical houses and sites. The program combines exceptional resources with Drexel's strengths in applied education, arts administration, business, information science, online learning, and more. The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, the Fox Historic Costume Collection and the many world-class museums in the region are the program's laboratories.

This 45-credit Master of Science degree, which includes a practicum, can be completed full- or part-time and a portion of the program is online. The innovative curriculum includes planning and design, governance, financial management and resource development for museums, technology, including the uses of technology in exhibition design, communications, and management, education and public programming, partnerships and collaboration, and legal and ethical issues for museums.

International applicants are required to demonstrate English language proficiency by submitting scores from the Test of English as a Foreign Language TOEFL minimum scores 90 or 577 or 233 the International English Language Testing System IELTS minimum Overall Band Score 6.5 the Pearson Test of English PTE minimum score 61 or the Duolingo Test Duolingo minimum score 110 unless they meet the criteria for a waiver

Essay
Please write approximately 500 words explaining your reasons for pursuing a degree from Drexel your short-term and long-term career plans and how your background experience interest andor values when combined with a Drexel degree will enable you to pursue these goals successfully
Resume
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Letters of Recommendation
Two letters of recommendation are required

Although requirements vary by program regular admission typically requires a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.0 B for undergraduate work The average for any graduate work must be at least 3.0 Applicants for post-master's status must show potential for further study by having maintained at least a 3.0 average in their masters-level studies Individual departmental requirements may exceed these minimums.