Master’s in Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Management Curriculum

The MS in Supply Chain Management curriculum consists of core and elective courses designed to enhance your understanding of the business landscape, the intricacies and logistics of the supply chain, and effective practices relating specifically to overseeing work in supply chain management.

From diving into advanced business analytics and learning to make data-driven decisions to becoming skilled in risk management to identify and mitigate threats, our program expands your expertise and provides practical strategies for managing all aspects of the supply chain. With the advanced concepts and business theory you acquire, you build a specialized skill set that supports you as a competitive job candidate and a well-rounded leader.

Your master’s program culminates in a hands-on capstone experience. In this course, you use simulations to develop a strategy integrating procurement, quality, and logistics to achieve superior performance across the supply chain. This offers you practical experience to apply toward your current or future work, and this project also allows you to imagine new possibilities and try innovative strategies to improve the supply chain.

Review the curriculum for the master’s in supply chain management to learn more.

Additional Degree Completion Information

Students with a bachelor’s degree in supply chain management may be eligible to waive two courses from the program based on courses taken during their undergraduate degree program. In such cases, students may be asked to replace those waived courses with elective courses from the SCM program.

Important rules for students with a business or other relevant background:

• Students with a business or other relevant degree can waive up to nine credit hours if they have taken two relevant undergraduate courses for each graduate-level course they wish to waive.
• Students wishing to transfer from other graduate-level programs can waive up to nine credit hours if the SCM faculty approves their existing coursework to be equivalent to MS in SCM courses.
• MITx Micromasters students can complete the MS in SCM by using their master’s courses for up to nine hours of transfer credit that will be provided as credit for prior learning.
  • All graduate programs require a minimum of 30 graduate level credit hours. Transfer credit is limited to a maximum of nine credits in graduate courses completed in the last 5 years with grades of B (3.0) or better, during enrollment as a graduate student at an AACSB-accredited program.
• University of Michigan-Flint’s BBA graduates who may have taken undergraduate versions of cross-listed courses are not asked to repeat those courses. Instead, they can take a larger number of courses from the electives to complete 30 credit hours.
• No matter how many courses a student has from prior education, they must complete at least 21 credit hours in UM-Flint’s master’s program.

Admission Requirements (No GRE)

When applying to UM-Flint’s Master of Science in Supply Chain Management program, you must meet the criteria to qualify:

• Admission to the MS in Supply Chain Management program is open to qualified graduates with a bachelor’s degree in the arts, sciences, engineering, or business administration from a regionally accredited institution. 
• Applicants with a three-year bachelor’s degree from an institution outside of the U.S. may be eligible for admission at the University of Michigan-Flint if it is determined through the credential review process that the three-year degree completed is equivalent to a US bachelor’s degree.
• The University of Michigan will consider a three-year degree from India equivalent to a US bachelor’s degree if the degrees have been earned with a minimum of 60% marks and the awarding institutions have been accredited by India’s National Assessment and Accreditation Council with a grade of “A” or better.

Applying to the Master’s in Supply Chain Management Program

To apply to our Master of Science in Supply Chain Management program, please submit all of the application materials outlined below:

• Online application for graduate admission.
• $55 application fee (non-refundable).
• Official transcripts from all colleges and universities attended. Please read our full transcript policy for more information.
• For any degree completed at a non-U.S. institution, transcripts must be submitted for an internal credential review. Read the following for instructions on how to submit your transcripts for review.
• If English is not your native language, and you are not from an exempt country, you must demonstrate English proficiency.
• Statement of Purpose: a one-page, typed response to the following question: “What are your career objectives, and how will an MS in Supply Chain Management contribute to accomplishing these objectives?”
• Résumé, including all professional and educational experience.
• Two letters of recommendation (professional and/or academic).
• Students from abroad must submit additional documentation.

Please email all additional application materials to [email protected] or deliver them to the Office of Graduate Programs at 251 Thompson Library.

This program can be completed 100% online or on campus with in-person courses. Students living abroad may also complete this program online in their home country. For other non-immigrant visa holders currently in the United States, please contact the Center for Global Engagement at [email protected].

As a new academic degree, this program is not currently accepting applications from international students seeking an F-1 visa. This program will accept applications from international students who must have an I-20 as soon as authorization from the Department of Homeland Security is received.

Special Requirement for Citizens of India

Applicants who attended an institution in India where the language of instruction was exclusively English cannot use that method exclusively to meet the English proficiency requirements. Applicants who attended a verified English-medium institution must also submit an approved test score or use one of the other approved methods. Those with a 5.0 IELTS score will be eligible for standard admission and will have no further English proficiency requirement; those below a 5.0 IELTS score will not be admitted.

*If you are a US citizen or permanent resident and wish to waive this requirement, you may make your case to the director of the program. The director, in turn, must make the case to the Dean of Graduate Programs. You must provide sufficient evidence that you have the requisite English proficiency.

**The university reserves the right to require an applicant to provide other evidence of English proficiency if independent sources cannot verify that the language of instruction was exclusively English.

Application Deadlines

• Fall Semester Early Deadline: May 1*
• Fall Semester Final Deadline: Aug. 1
• Winter Semester: Dec.1 
• Summer Semester: April 1 (domestic students only)

*You must have a complete application by the early May 1 deadline to guarantee application eligibility for scholarships, grants, and research assistantships.