Location:

Manhattan, United States

Program Type:

Full Degree

Degree Level:

Master

Specialty:

Area, Ethnic & Cultural Studies

Program Overview

Program Description:

The community development master's degree program provides the skills, information and networks needed to facilitate sustainable and prosperous community change. It equips practitioners with the tools necessary to build a community in the 21st Century.

Part of the Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance (Great Plains IDEA) consortium, this online program allows students to learn from leading educators and researchers from several different universities representing a diversity of fields and scholarship.

Careers in Community Development
The program serves community leaders, practitioners and those committed to people and places in fields such as:

* Community and regional planning
* Carks and recreation
* Housing agencies
* Sociology
* Native American studies
* Economics
* Natural resources

Additional Program Information

Accreditation:

"Kansas State University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. The community development master’s degree is offered through the Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Communit