The Archdiocese of Philadelphia is pleased to announce it has renewed a unique partnership with Villanova University’s Center for Church Management (CCM) to offer an innovative two-year, online Master of Science in Church Management (MSCM) degree designed to provide students with a high-level skill set in effective church management. In addition, a 50 percent scholarship is available to any new students from the five-county Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
“We are committed to providing education and scholarship in the Augustinian Catholic tradition on strategic, management, and temporal matters in service to leaders of Churches and other Christian ministries,” says Matthew F. Manion ’11 MSCM, faculty director, CCM. “We have been very impressed with the students from the Archdiocese who enrolled last year and we are excited to continue this partnership and the 50 percent scholarship program to strengthen the pool of leaders who can combine the mission of Jesus with sound management of the Church.”
“My experience with the MSCM has been outstanding. The program offers a well-rounded curriculum where you can find the perfect balance between the managerial/administrative and the theological/pastoral,” says Paola Cubides Herrera, Secretary for the Office for Cultural Ministries and Office for Hispanic Catholics. “Every topic or concept discussed and learned is consistent with the lived reality that is experienced in our Church and communities nowadays. The program offers unique flexibility through its online offerings and the exceptional human and academic quality of the professors. I have been encouraged through the MSCM program to excel as a disciple and to discover how to put my gifts and talents at the service of the kingdom of God.”
Ranked the #2 online graduate business degree program in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, the MSCM program at VSB is designed to meet the needs of an international student body of church leaders and managers—including parish business managers, people serving in pastoral ministry roles who would like to provide greater value and support to their parish or diocese, and individuals who have worked in business professionally and want to transition to church work. It is ideal for professionals who cannot take leave of their positions to relocate and pursue full-time study. The MSCM can be completed online in only two years of part-time study.
The Villanova School of Business currently has similar partnership arrangements with the Archdiocese of New York, the Diocese of Trenton, and the Diocese of Camden.
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Editor’ Note: The first of its kind in the nation, VSB’s Center for Church Management is dedicated to serving the church through education and research. The Center offers a Master of Science in Church Management, as well as several certificate programs and resources for Church management.
The Villanova School of Business (VSB) undergraduate program is ranked #1 in the nation by Bloomberg Businessweek and its online specialty graduate business programs are ranked #2, and its online MBA program is ranked #13 by U.S. News and World Report. VSB has been at the forefront of business education since it was founded in 1922. Serving over 2,700 undergraduate and graduate students, VSB is home to five Centers of Excellence – the Daniel M. DiLella Center for Real Estate, the Elenore and Robert F. Moran Sr. Center for Global Leadership, the Center for Business Analytics, the Center for Marketing & Consumer Insights and the Center for Church Management – with each designed to foster innovative, cross-disciplinary research and applied opportunities for students. VSB is known for academic rigor; creativity and innovation; hands-on and service learning opportunities; a firm grounding in ethics; and an applied education that prepares students to become outstanding leaders and global citizens within the ever-changing, complex, and fast-paced world of business. For more, visit business.villanova.edu.
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