Master of Arts in Strategic Foresight

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It takes more than traditional business practices to lead a successful organization; it takes the tools and the ability to recognize and understand the trends that help predict future challenges and opportunities.

Leadership on the cutting edge of change

The Master of Arts in Strategic Foresight (MSF) exists to help fulfill Regent University's mission to "Develop Globally Competent, Christ-Centered Leaders, Who Make a Difference in the World." The primary world we prepare our graduates for is the world of work, to empower them to help their organization navigate the turbulence waters of the 21st century and create the global enterprises of tomorrow. The MSF expresses this mission and evaluates its program outcome in five ways:

1. MSF students will be able to design an environmental scanning system, enabling an organization's strategic leaders to track patterns of systemic change across trends, events and issues
   
   
2. MSF students will be able to create a baseline forecast of trends for an organization which contains alternative futures, uncertainties, and wildcards relating to the next decade.
   
   
3. MSF students will be able to lead a departmental team to develop strategic plans, which includes mission, vision, and goals, appropriately matched to the near-term competitive, customer and industry environment.
   
   
4. MSF students will be able to lead a scenario learning process for a leadership team that tests their strategy against a range of possible future developments.
   
   
5. MSF students will be able to present their professional specialization, foresight practices, and their Christian faith in appropriate media such as, but not limited to a career portfolio, popular press articles, lectures, and conferences.

Grasp your opportunity to study the future in the context of organizational decision-making through the School of Global Leadership & Entrepreneurship's Master of Arts in Strategic Foresight. Designed for consultants as well as managers of strategy, HR/training, R&D and marketing, our MSF degree will fine-tune your leadership abilities and help you discover how to position your leadership on the cutting edge of change. 

This 33-semester-hour degree can be completed in 18 to 48 months and includes key strategic foresight elements of futures theory, leadership, creativity, vision, social change, critical thinking, forecasting, scenario development and strategic planning. Learn more about this program's degree requirements.

In addition, the MSF offers the convenience and flexibility of online course delivery and autonomous learning methods that accommodate almost any schedule, allowing you to continue full-time employment throughout the program. In most cases, no on-campus residency is required. To learn more about admissions requirements and to apply, go to our admissions site.

Optional Residency Event

While residency is not required for the MSF program, the program offers students an opportunity to attend an optional two-day residency.

The optional residency event provides an excellent opportunity to network with other students, learn more about Regent University and of course, meet personally with the faculty and staff of the School of Global Leadership & Entrepreneurship.

Residency is conducted at the Founders Inn & Spa which is conveniently located adjacent to the University and provides exceptional accommodations including lodging, meeting rooms and wireless internet access throughout the property.

MSF students may attend the optional May residency one time at no cost other than personal transportation. GLE will cover the room for Thursday and Friday night and meals from Thursday evening through Lunch Saturday. Students or alumni who wish to attend additional residencies will have a fee of $600 to cover rooms, meals, speaker fees.

Visit the residency web page for more information on residency dates and scheduled activities.