Lead the way in the evolving resilience field.
Master of Science in Resilience Studies
The Master of Science in Resilience Studies is a first-of-its-kind graduate degree program that focuses on maximizing systemic and societal resilience. Because you’ll learn from both technical and policy experts, you’ll gain a new perspective on security challenges and the cutting-edge skills needed to prepare for, withstand, and recover rapidly in the face of disasters like climate change, pandemics, terrorism, and more.
You’ll have the unique opportunity to:
- Customize your security studies graduate program with an elective theme that best aligns with your professional goals: administration management and policy, counterterrorism and conflict studies, cybersecurity policy, resilient cities, or criminal justice.
- Study and network with world-renowned experts who are informing and shaping the global approach to emerging threats and disaster recovery, such as Daniel Aldrich, director of the Center for Resilience Studies, and Stephen Flynn, co-director of the George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security.
- Strengthen your resumé and gain hands-on experience through co-ops, case studies, group work, capstone projects, and collaborative research relationships with organizations like Mass General Hospital, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, and the U.S. Marshals Service.
- Participate in groundbreaking research at the Global Resilience Institute, The Social Impact Lab, and the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy.
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“Our unique program teaches policy-oriented students how to ask the right technical questions and technically oriented students how to ask the right policy questions. Our mission is to prepare future leaders who share our quest to build a safer and more resilient world.”
—Stephen Flynn, PhD, resilience studies professor
Entry terms:
Course delivery:
Application deadlines:
Fall:
- F-1 visa students: June 15
- Domestic students: August 15
Spring:
- F-1 visa students: October 1
- Domestic students: December 15
The benefits of earning your Master of Science in Resilience Studies at Northeastern
- Complete your degree in Boston or entirely online—choosing from flexible part- and full-time options.
- Learn from and collaborate with respected experts in resilience studies.
- Specialize with electives in administration management and policy, counterterrorism and conflict studies, cybersecurity policy, resilient cities, or criminal justice.
- Help solve real-world problems with local agencies, companies, and nonprofits through collaborative research, experiential network projects, and other opportunities.
- Build experience and get paid while you earn your master’s with an optional full-time co-op.
- Network with alums in influential roles at top companies, impactful organizations, and key governmental bodies.
About Northeastern University
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experiential lifelong learning. Our approach of integrating real-world experience with education, research, and innovation empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create worldwide impact.
Our global university system provides our community and academic, government, and industry partners with unique opportunities to think locally and act globally. The system—which includes 13 campuses across the U.S., U.K., and Canada, 320,000-plus alumni, and more than 3,800 partners worldwide—serves as a platform for scaling ideas, talent, and solutions.
Northeastern’s personalized, experiential undergraduate and graduate programs lead to degrees through the doctorate in 10 colleges and schools across our campuses. Learning emphasizes the intersection of data, technology, and human literacies, uniquely preparing graduates for careers of the future and lives of fulfillment and accomplishment.
Our research enterprise, with an R1 Carnegie classification, is solutions oriented and spans the world. Our faculty scholars and students work in teams that cross not just disciplines, but also sectors—aligned around solving today’s highly interconnected global challenges and focused on transformative impact for humankind.