Earn a Master's Degree in

Global Studies

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Overview

Lead globally. Act with purpose.

This 45-credit-hour master’s program combines rigorous academics with immersive global residencies designed to build cultural understanding, real-world experience, and principled leadership.

Students develop global understanding through six core academic disciplines: language, history, economics, politics, religion, and sociology. Equipping them with the cultural awareness, practical insight, and leadership perspective needed to navigate an interconnected world.

Our Program At a Glance

2 Years Abroad
6 Continents
40 Countries
4 New Languages

A Comprehensive Travel Footprint

Oriention begins in Scotland
European residency in France and Turkey
Central & South American residencies in Uruguay & Costa Rica
East Asia & Australasia residency in China
Middle East & South Asia residency Egypt & United Arab Emirates
African residency across Arabic-, English-, French-, & Spanish-speaking countries
North American & Caribbean residencies in U.S. & the U.S. Virgin Islands

Top levels of Mastery

Become part of the global 1% in language mastery, intercultural fluency, leadership,and impact readiness.

Full Accreditation

Receive a Master’s Degree from a regionally accredited global residency Program. Become a highly sought-after Palm™ Scholar and

Global Leader prepared to do substantial good in the world.

You have this one life

Make it Extraordinary!

Travel the world. Go where leadership is tested.
Walk the streets. Stand in places where global decisions shape everyday life.
Smell the smells. Experience cultures not as a visitor, but as a student of the world.
Meet diverse people. Meet people from a wide variety of cultures. Listen to perspectives you won't find in textbooks.
Build experience. Experience what most classrooms cannot teach.and use those experiences to do Substantial Good in the world.