Gonzaga University review

Today's employers want strong leaders and you can enhance your career through Gonzaga University's interactive curriculum. Leadership comes from within. Gain the traits, skills and ways of thinking that define leadership in a number of career fields from Gonzaga University.

How Will YOU Become a Leader?
Times have changed. The economic outlook is uncertain. Now is the time that the world needs leaders. Leadership is the steady hand that inspires us to persist through adversity. Gonzaga University knows leadership.

Bring out the leader within you, with one of our online degrees:

* M.A. in Organizational Leadership degree
* M.A. in Communication and Leadership Studies

Gonzaga University: Jesuit Tradition and Private Excellence
Gonzaga University was founded in 1887 in Spokane, Washington as a private, Jesuit University. Our philosophy is based on the 450-year old Ignation model that aims to educate the whole person - mind, body and spirit.

We keep our online class sizes small, to facilitate learning, networking, and student-instructor interaction. Our distinguished faculty are not only exceptional teachers, they are also caring mentors. We want you to succeed. Our guiding principle is that it is not what you know, but what you do with what you know.

Ranking and Recognition
Gonzaga has been ranked one of the top universities in the West for 16 years by US News and World Report. In addition, the Princeton Review and Forbes Magazine have separately ranked Gonzaga one of the nation's best universities. We are fully accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities and are a member of the Jesuit Education Network.

Master's in Communication and Leadership Studies

Where Communication Professionals Learn to Lead

Gonzaga University is an accredited, non-profit, private university ranked as one of the top-three schools on the West Coast for 16-years by US News and World Report. In addition, Gonzaga is ranked by both the Princeton Review and Forbes as one of the nation's best universities.

Gonzaga's online Master's in Communication & Leadership Studies is a rigorous program, that blends communication theory with a practical leadership skill set. Students have the advantage of earning a degree in both communication and leadership. This sets Gonzaga's graduates apart in the workforce.

Gonzaga's students come from a variety of backgrounds: broadcasting, public relations, corporate communications, advertising, human resources, consulting, lobbying and more. The program is also popular with recent graduates, who want to earn their master's degree while also gaining practical work experience in their chosen field.
Gonzaga's students learn the latest communication theory and also learn the leadership skills necessary to build alliances, change the status quo and handle a crisis head-on. In short, graduates have a mastery level of communication, and also the leadership acumen required to get things done.

Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership

Create Lasting Change. Build a Legacy.

Gonzaga University's renowned online Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership is an interdisciplinary program that incorporates knowledge from the social sciences, communication field, arts, humanities, and business, into a transformational leadership curriculum. Our program challenges your ability for creative thinking and innovative problem solving.

Students come to our online Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership with various undergraduate majors, career paths and experience levels. In any given class, your fellow students may work in public service, for a non-profit, be on active duty in the military, have recently graduated, or are seasoned corporate professionals.

From your first course, you will learn leadership competencies you can use right now, and for the rest of your life - regardless of the path you take or the changes that might come. You will learn how to forge alliances, build hope and contagious confidence, and inspire a shared vision as you learn how to turn details into action.
PROGRAM FEATURES:

* Maximum career mobility.
* Working at your own pace - individualized degree plans.
* Curriculum is designed for working-adults.
* Access your coursework from anywhere, anytime of day or night
* 24/7 technical support
* Network with a community of "classmates" from all over the country

Frequent access to professors through online discussion boards and office hours