DEGREE
PROGRAMS
Accreditation and Approvals | Affiliations
Today's management environment is exceptionally turbulent. Resources are
scarce, technology advances rapidly, requirements and perceived needs change
quickly, the global marketplace is very competitive and the laws and
regulations are becoming more numerous and more complex.
Today's managers, both in industry and
government, in order to respond effectively to the changing environment, must
have two essential elements. The first is a personal value system appropriate
to the problems and human expectations of the times. The second is the ability
to understand and interpret basic management disciplines and technological,
environmental and political trends in order to achieve organizational and
societal goals.
American Graduate University serves as an
institution of higher learning for persons engaged in the areas of acquisition
and contracts management, project/program management, and general business
management. The function of the University is to define and provide the
education for successful participation in the field. Students may take
individual courses as their need dictates, or they may participate in the
University's degree programs.
The University offers intellectually demanding
programs leading to a Master of Acquisition Management
(MAM) degree, a Master of Project Management
(MPM) degree, a Master of Contract Management
(MCM) degree, or a Master of Business
Administration (MBA) with Project Management and Acquisition/Contract
Management concentrations. The programs provide a unique educational
opportunity for the mature adult student that both in content and
sophistication compares favorably with the most advanced management education
available from any public, private or Government educational institution.
The University's educational programs are
completely structured, extensively researched and documented, organized and
conducted by a professional faculty with an extensive practical and theoretical
background.
These rigorous programs produce a management
education of substance, quality, and considerable market value.
The programs of the University provide a choice
of plans for the educational development of managers based on the needs and
obvious career channels of the individual firm or agency and the industry. This
approach is designed to reduce the waste of scarce educational time and dollars
in attendance at random courses and seminars. The program is organized so that
individual managers can be the principal determinants as to what happens to
them educationally, within the parameters of the needs of the organization and
industry, so that their education will have meaning to all three.
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ACCREDITATION AND APPROVALS
 American
Graduate University's education programs are accredited by the
Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC).
The Accrediting Commission of DETC is listed by the U.S. Department of
Education as a nationally recognized accrediting agency and is also a
recognized member of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. The
University also has full institutional approval from the California Bureau for
Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education to grant the degrees.
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AFFILIATIONS
AGU is a Registered Global Education Provider of the
Project Management Institute. The University has a strategic
partnership with the Defense Acquisition University
to offer DOD personnel the opportunity to credit their DAU courses toward a
joint DAU-AGU certificate program or graduate degree. AGU is a charter member
of the National Contract Management Association's Contract Management Learning
Center.
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