Release Date:
8/7/2009 11:40 AM
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NEW LONDON, Conn. - The University of New Haven’s Southeastern Campus is pleased to run the popular Master of Arts in Industrial Organizational Psychology for its third year. Courses for this 20-month long program will begin in September at the satellite campus located at Mitchell College in New London, CT. The Master of Arts in Industrial Organizational Psychology (IO Psych) has a focus in Organizational Development and is geared toward professionals looking to enter or grow in the fields of human resources, organizational development, and consulting. It will provides the skills necessary for careers designed to improve the satisfaction and productivity of people at work, through effective selection, training, performance management, leadership development and organizational change initiatives. According to Salary.com, professionals with advanced degrees earn 44% more than those with bachelor’s degrees. Organizational development is a relatively new but rapidly-growing field, and the median Organizational Development Specialist salary is $66,860. The degree’s curriculum teaches students to improve organization’s effectiveness by taking a closer look at its strategies, structures, and processes, and most importantly, its employees.The University of New Haven is a private, independent, non-profit, non-sectarian comprehensive university based in southern New England, and chartered by the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut, specializing in quality education opportunities. The Southeastern campus has been serving the educational needs of residents in Southeastern Connecticut and Rhode Island for more than three decades, offering academic degree programs for the full-time working adult interested in career advancement. Applications are being accepted for Fall 2009 enrollment. To learn more about the programs available at the University of New Haven’s Southeastern Branch in New London, please visit the website at www.newhaven.edu/sect, call the UNH Southeastern Campus Office at (860) 701-5454 or email SECampus@newhaven.edu.