UW-Stout's polytechnic approach creates a unique combination of competencies in our graduates, including the ability to:
- Lead the Learning Function: Serve as a strategic partner with senior leadership, develop and manage human capital, implement learning projects, and evaluate technology to enhance learning
- Improve Human Performance in an Organizational Context: Draw on business acumen, analyze needs, propose solutions, design learning, deliver training, and measure or evaluate effectiveness
- Facilitate Organizational Change: Facilitate strategic planning for change, build trust, influence stakeholders, leverage diversity, and help manage culture change
- Manage Organizational Knowledge: Serve as a catalyst for knowledge sharing, understand business technology and how it enables and encourages organizational learning
Program Overview
The demand for training and human development managers and specialists is growing nationwide and in Wisconsin. Our program's diverse curriculum qualifies you for a great starting salary in a variety of positions, including:
- Leadership Development Specialist
- Learning and Development Manager
- Organizational Change Manager
- Talent Development Manager
- Instructional Designer
- Technical Trainer
- Human Resource Development Coordinator
- Training Supervisor or Manager
- Internal/External Consultant
Use the Request Information form to receive a program summary and learn more about the Master of Science degree in Training and Human Development.
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Tuition & Fees
Customized Instruction at UW Stout can be described as programs that are designed with the adult learner in mind. If you're comparing UW-Stout's customized instruction tuition to our competitors, keep in mind:
- Customized instruction tuition rate includes the textbook rental fee.
- There are no additional university-based semester or technology fees.
- Students in customized instruction programs pay the same rate of tuition regardless if Wisconsin residents, out-of-state or international participants.
Value for Your Money
There’s more to value than just tuition. UW Stout also provides:
- Program Director – faculty with discipline expertise.
- Student Services adviser – one point of contact, providing support to students for each program.
- Course sequences and matrices – know what courses are offered when so you can plan ahead.
- Courses and programs may be stackable for use in another program.
- Courses are flexible and convenient for working professionals.
Other universities will present costs and value differently - make sure you're comparing apples to apples.
General UW-Stout Graduate School Application
All prospective graduate students at UW-Stout must follow a standard application process through our Graduate School. Beyond that, each graduate program has specific requirements that must be met to be successfully admitted to the program:
Program-Specific Admission Requirements
Eligibility
To be admitted with full status to the M.S. Training and Human Resource Development program, you must:
- Hold a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university.
- Have earned an undergraduate GPA of at least 3.0.
- Possess a background in training systems and organizational leadership.
Program Application
To successfully apply to the program please submit the following:
- Current Resume
- Professional statement that includes short and long term career goals
- 2 signed letters of professional reference
Please submit all materials by email to Beth Kucko, Graduate School Admissions Examiner at kuckob@uwstout.edu.
"Engage – Influence – Transform! Completing the program has broadened my workforce development abilities. I’m engaging business leaders, partnering with individual contributors, and contributing positive leadership in organizational development programs. This program has sharpened my focus on the systems of learning and given me the skills needed today to add business value, deliver client satisfaction, and elevate learner achievement."
David Draper
Instructional Designer
We Energies, Milwaukee, Wis.
"As my career has progressed, I find that the competencies learned in the master’s program at UW-Stout have provided me with a foundation of expertise that is rarely matched in the Training and Human Resource Development field. These knowledge and skills are critical in order to design, develop and deliver learning and performance interventions that impact the business. I still find myself using references from the program that I discovered over 10 years ago."
Don Stuckert, CPLP
Manager, Manufacturing Learning and Performance
Thomson Reuters
2021 MSTHRD Advisory Committee
| Mihyang | An | Psychology Assistant Professor | UW-Stout |
| Oscar | Brandser | Account Manager | Xcel Energy - Eau Claire |
| David | Ding | Interim Associate Dean, CSTEMM | UW-Stout |
| Michelle | Dingwall | UW Stout Student | UW-Stout |
| Kelly, Dr. | Droege | Assist. Professor; Operations Management | UW-Stout |
| John | Dzissah | Department Chair, Operations and Management | UW-Stout |
| Brenda | Everson | VP of HR and Organizational Effectiveness | Midco |
| Hagen | Gunderson | Talent Manager | Food Merchandising Business Unit |
| Kathryn | Hamilton | Psychology Professor | UW-Stout |
| Joseph | Kessel | UW Stout Student | Uw-Stout |
| Dale | Kiesow | Case Manager of Education | HCL (Health Care for Hospitals) |
| Sarah | Kocken | Stout Onlin | UW-Stout |
| Daniel | Menden | Principal Training Consultant | Mensch Learning Solutions |
| Gindy | Neidermyer | Interim Dean, CSTEMM | UW-Stout |
| Elizabeth | Sippl | Program Assistant | UW-Stout |
| Alicia | Stachowski | Psychology Professor | UW-Stout |
| Emmy | Vanden Langenberg | Mill Learning Leader | International Paper |
| Dr. Sara Lynne | Willett | Corporate HR Director | NSM |
