Graduate Studies
Take your career to the next level with flexible, affordable options for earning a Michigan degree.
The world and the workplace are constantly changing. We’ll help you evolve with them. Through in-person, online and hybrid formats, we offer the flexibility you need to earn the degree that will advance your education and career.
UM-Dearborn offers more than 50 graduate programs. Whether you’re exploring new career paths, are interested in moving up at your current organization or simply want to gain new skills and knowledge, we have the program that’s right for you. Gain invaluable experience and expertise in fields with high-earning potential, from environmental science to cybersecurity and information assurance, business analytics to health information technology. We offer many master's programs fully online, designed for working professionals and distance learners.
With small class sizes and a supportive learning environment, you’ll work closely with your professors. Through research and practice-based learning, you’ll gain intensive, practical experience that will expand your horizons and give you a competitive edge in the workplace. Our faculty have strong industry and community ties, and they’ll help you navigate local and international networks of professionals, many of whom want to hire from our pool of experienced graduates. And you’ll gain connections across the globe as a member of one of the world’s largest alumni networks, more than 650,000 strong.
The degree that makes a difference.
Explore our programs by college below.
Flexible, affordable and powered by Michigan.
Explore our programs by college below. View an alphabetical listing of our programs.
- Accounting (MS)
- Business Administration (MBA) *
- Business Analytics (MS)
- Finance (MS)*
- Information Systems (MS)
- Marketing (MS)*
- Supply Chain Management (MS)
Dual-Degree Programs
- Accounting (MS) and Finance (MS)
- Business Administration (MBA) and Finance (MS)*
- Business Administration (MBA) and Health Services Administration (MHSA from Ann Arbor)
- Business Administration (MBA) and Information Systems (MS)
- Business Administration (MBA) and Industrial and Systems Engineering (MSE)*
- Business Administration (MBA) and Supply Chain Management (MS)
* Available online
- Applied Behavior Analysis (MS)
- Community Based Education (MA)
- Education (EdD)
- Education Specialist (EdS)
- Early Childhood Education (MA)*
- Education (MA)*
- Educational Leadership (MA)
- Educational Technology (MA)** Not currently accepting new applications **
- Health Information Technology (MS)
- Instructional Design & Learning Technologies (MA)*
- Teaching (MAT)
* Available online
Certificates
All graduate credits earned in a certificate program at UM-Dearborn can be applied toward a UM-Dearborn graduate degree program pending individual course review and approval of the program.
- Artificial Intelligence (MS)*
- Automotive Systems and Mobility (D.Eng.)
- Computer and Information Science (PhD)
- Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Engineering (PhD)
- Industrial and Systems Engineering (PhD)
- Mechanical Sciences and Engineering (PhD)
- Automotive and Mobility Systems Engineering (MSE)*
- Bioengineering (MSE)
- Computer Engineering (MSE)*
- Computer and Information Science (MS)*
- Cybersecurity and Information Assurance (MS)*
- Data Science (MS)*
- Electrical and Computer Engineering (DEng)
- Electrical Engineering (MSE)*
- Energy Systems and Sustainability Engineering (MSE)*
- Engineering Management (MS)*
- Human Centered Design and Engineering (MS)*
- Industrial and Systems Engineering (MSE)*
- Information Systems and Technology (MS)*
- Manufacturing Systems Engineering (MSE)*
- Materials Science and Engineering (MSE)*
- Mechanical Engineering (MSE)*
- Program and Project Management (MS)*
- Robotics Engineering (MSE)*
- Software Engineering (MS)*
Dual-Degree Program
* Available online
Certificates
- Automotive Materials and Design*
- Automotive Noise, Vibration & Harshness*
- Automotive Powertrains*
- Control Systems*
- Electrical System Analytics*
- Electrical System Equipment*
- Electrical System Planning*
- Electrical System Protection and Control*
- Electric Energy Technology*
- Engineering of Electrified Vehicular Systems*
- Game Design*
- Industrial Mechatronics Graduate Certificate*
- Intelligent Systems in Engineering Applications*
- Materials for Manufacturing*
- Modeling and Simulations in Engineering*
- Plastic & Composite Materials*
- Program & Project Management*
- Software Engineering*
- Systems Engineering*
- Vehicle Electronics & Controls*
* Available online
All graduate credits earned in a certificate program at UM-Dearborn can be applied toward a UM-Dearborn graduate degree program pending individual course review and approval of the program.
Featured Programs
Accreditation
The University of Michigan-Dearborn earns its accreditation through the Higher Learning Commission (HLC), the regional accrediting organization approved by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) for degree-granting institutions in the state of Michigan.
UM-Dearborn Difference Maker
Our students are improving the lives of others and making an impact in the community. Meet more Difference Makers.
At UM-Dearborn, it's not just education. It's a life here: you make friends, you build skills. ... It changed my life for sure.— Hesham Alghodhaifi, ‘21 Ph.D. in Computer Engineering
How to Reach Us
Office of Graduate Studies
Phone: 313-583-6321
Email: [email protected]