FutureGenerations

Supporting the Professional Growth of Practitioners and Leaders Worldwide

Term 1 field residential: In the tribal communities of North East India, students and village welfare workers are on their way to meet with community members as part of a focus group discussion.Purpose: This two-year Master's Degree program provides relevant and practical higher education for development professionals while allowing them to remain on the job and in their own countries. This program integrates:

• On the job skills development
• First-hand experience with a wide range of successful international development and conservation programs.
• Deliverables that include a practicum project, either research based or program based, executed by the student in his/her current professional and local context.

Learn more by taking a photographic tour through our two year program from the students' perspective.

Academic Schedule for the Working Professional:Master's Degree Two-Year Schedule  

• For 20 months, students remain in their home countries, drawing from their local contexts to deepen their understanding of development challenges and solutions.
• On-line interactive learning with faculty and peers helps students build a theoretical, historical, and cross-cultural perspective of core topics.A simultaneous practicum project allows students to practice new skills and focus on a core question of local relevance.
• For one month every term, students join peers and faculty at residential sites to learn first hand from other practitioners and projects.

See our curriculum section for more information and detailed course listings.

For Development Practitioners and Professionals: This learning approach has opened the doors of relevant and rigorous higher education to practitioners from 19 countries. Students have come from such organizations as the:

• Afghanistan Ministry of Health,
• Bhutan Society for the Royal Protection of Nature,
• Community Development Foundation of Mozambique,
• Heiltsuk Tribal Council, and
• World Relief in Cambodia and Rwanda.

Are you ready for a degree that will change not only your life, but your community as well?

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This Master's Degree is authorized by the State of West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission. The Future Generations Graduate School is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit institution of higher education and is currently a candidate for initial accreditation by the Northwest Central Association Higher Learning Commission.