The need to devise strategies to survive disruptive events, recover quickly, and rebuild stronger clearly applies not only to local and national governments and their agencies but also to private industry.
Resilience focuses on identifying risk, understanding the systems involved in that risk assessment, and the determination of how to mitigate it, as well as to bounce back and adapt after disruption. Opportunities for graduates with resilience knowledge and skills are sought within:
- Public Safety and Public Health
- Energy/Power
- Transportation
- Communications
- Supply chain management
- Government entities, including DHS, FBI, Secret Service and branches of the military (as a private contractor)
Recent graduates of the MS in Resilience Studies degree have found employment in a wide variety of opportunities, including:
- Data analyst: US Marshals Service
- Program analyst and emergency management: FEMA
- Cyber security analyst: major health insurance corporation
- Aviation security specialist: Massachusetts Port Authority
- Security consultant for private industry customers
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Type of Program
- Graduate Certificate
- Graduate Program
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