Choose AUM
For Your Graduate Degree
For Your Career
For Your Future
With the graduate degrees offered by the Auburn Montgomery School of Sciences, you can take your education -- and your career -- to the next level. Or, you can lay the foundation for a new career altogether. Either way, our graduate degrees can get you where you want to go.
Because we share a hometown with Maxwell Air Force Base and Alabama state government, we have worked hard to build master’s degrees that build your skills in the areas of public administration, public security, political operations and governments, international relations and psychology.
All the programs are taught by highly trained, highly experienced faculty who have the expertise you are looking for as you work to build your career and skill base.
Criminal Justice: Auburn Montgomery offers three options for earning your master's in criminal - each designed to let you work when and where it's convenient for you.
Executive Master’s: This two-year program is taught on the weekends at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville and is designed for working criminal justice professionals who want to further a professional career, or as the next step toward a doctoral degree.
Online Accelerated Executive Master's: A completely online degree, this option allows you to earn your master's in Criminal Justice in just 12 months. It is designed for working criminal justice professionals who want to further a professional career, or as the next step toward a doctoral degree.
Traditional Master's: Prefer to take your classes on campus where you can interact more readily with your professors and other students? Then consider the two-year traditional master's where the courses are taught on the AUM campus.
Homeland Security: The newest of AUM’s master’s options, the Homeland Security program is an option within the master's in Criminal Justice. It is designed to prepare emergency first-responders and those who lead them with the special knowledge and skills for anticipating and handling threats to public security and safety. Whether you plan to serve through in the military, public safety fields or private-sector security, you can prepare yourself by earning a master’s degree in homeland security and emergency management.
International Relations: This master’s degree emphasizes contemporary international politics, American foreign policy, national security policy, comparative government and area or regional studies. It is designed primarily for those in the military.
Judicial Administration: Through the Justice and Public Safety master's program, AUM offers a concentration in Judicial Administration. This option, approved by the American Bar Association, is designed to produce competent and well-rounded individuals with advanced preparation for careers as paralegals/legal assistants; court or other judicial administrators; and/or for admission to law school.
Political Science: This master’s program will raise your understanding of governments and governing procedures and problems. It is designed for students with varied undergraduate backgrounds and translates well for those with careers in education, the law, government, journalism or quasi-public organizations.
Psychology: The Psychology master’s degree offers expertise in clinical psychology and general psychology and includes the option of writing a thesis or doing practicum – depending on your career and educational goals.
Public Administration: The MPA provides knowledge and skills for successfully managing both public and nonprofit organizations. It is for those with a strong background in the social sciences, business administration, the health sciences, urban studies or planning.
Joint Ph.D. in Public Administration & Public Policy: This comprehensive program is offered jointly by Auburn University at Montgomery's Department of Political Science and Public Administration (PSPA) & Auburn University's Department of Political Science, 50 minutes away. Students may choose whichever campus is most convenient to take the majority of their courses.