Be essential—and drive change
Businesses across industries are increasingly discovering the value, versatility, and necessity of qualified product managers (PMs). These professionals provide crucial input throughout the life cycle of products and services, advising on factors affecting ideation, research, development, go-to-market strategy, marketing, maintenance, and eventual discontinuation.
With your Master of Science in Product Management, you can pursue roles to make a real impact in your organization.
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A positive career outlook
Despite being a relatively new field, product management is already recognized among the top careers. It has been ranked among the top 10 careers in the United States for five consecutive years, according to career website Glassdoor, with a 22% growth in position openings coming in the most recent rankings.
This position is based on factors like salary, satisfaction, and career growth. With your online MS in Product Management, you can prepare to establish yourself as a leader in this growing field.
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All backgrounds welcome
Product managers have a place across almost every professional field. Regardless of your educational and professional background, you can bring your unique perspective to the job.
We designed our master’s program with this professional diversity in mind. Here, you can build all the business, communication, and human-centric leadership skills you need to get your start in product management, help your organization achieve its goals, and grow into a leader.
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A rewarding career awaits
Businesses and organizations of all types recognize how important product management is to their success. It can be a rewarding career in multiple ways. Product managers affect all business efforts and have an impact across the whole lifespan of products and services—and they can command healthy salaries.
Pay varies based on factors like location, sector, and experience, but Payscale.com reports an average salary of more than $90,000, with many PMs reporting salaries well over $100,000.
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Why choose Regis College?
- Choose from three in-demand specializations: Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology, Information Technology, and Finance.
- Apply with no GRE, and complete coursework 100% online.
- Experience dynamic, career-relevant education, and graduate in as few as 20 months.
- Earn an education from an institution regionally accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education.
- Learn from highly supportive, experienced faculty.
- Earn your degree for under $30,000 in total tuition.
Help define your organization
Product managers are difference-makers across organizations and industries. So we designed our online MS in Product Management to help you build relevant soft and hard skills to meet the challenge and make an impact as you help bring products and services to life.
We also offer three in-demand concentrations, so you can tailor your educational experience to meet your professional needs and interests. Choose from Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology, Information Technology, or Finance.
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Outcomes-focused curriculum
We built our curriculum to be dynamic and focused on real-world challenges, opportunities, and strategies, so you can apply what you learn in the classroom to your current job—and graduate ready for your next move. Coursework covers crucial PM topics like:
- Communication
- Data analysis
- Decision-making
- The Five Product Movement model
- Leading theoretical approaches like Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and Waterfall
- Marketing
- Product development and production
- Product services systems
- Technical service
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Concentrate on your interests
Our program features three tracks to give your education an emphasis in an in-demand sector:
- Information Technology: Learn design, development, execution, and maintenance of products and services with a technological focus.
- Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology: Study regulations, best practices, and emerging research in a field critical to shared wellness.
- Finance: Learn the functions of design and examine how innovative products and services can bolster investment, insurance, and financial health.
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Faculty who know success
At Regis, our faculty are invested in your career outcomes. They’re experienced business professionals who have seen what it takes to thrive and lead across industries. Working closely with them, you’ll get the opportunity to examine real-world case studies and learn proven strategies to make an impact in your organization, start your own practice, or move forward in your career.
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Work in exciting settings
Our online MS in Product Management is a versatile degree that can help you pursue a career across a variety of industries and fields. With highly focused core coursework and your choice of three concentrations, you can tailor your education to your goals and prepare for work in settings like:
- Data and analytics
- Entertainment
- Finance and economics
- Health care and pharmaceuticals
- Marketing and PR
- Office settings
- Research firms
- Service industry
- Software and hardware development
- Tech startups
- UX/UI design
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Get a head start
Not ready for a full master’s degree? We can still get you started. At Regis, we also offer an online Introduction to Product Management Certificate comprising two courses (six credit hours). This program can help you build your foundations and get accustomed to product management before you dive in fully.
Best of all, once you complete the certificate—or if you’ve already finished it—you can apply all coursework completed toward your master’s degree and save time and money.
Prepare to make impactful moves in your organization
Our online Master of Science in Product Management program is designed to give you a streamlined path toward your next career steps. It comprises just 10 courses (30 credit hours), and you can graduate in about 20 months of full-time study.
Coursework comprises two foundational courses* (six credit hours), five core courses (15 credit hours), and a capstone experience (3 credit hours). The remaining six credit hours come from coursework in your selected concentration— Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology, Information Technology, or Finance.
* MT 545 and MT 550 are the two courses included in Regis’ online Introduction to Product Management Certificate. If you have completed that certificate program, you can apply completed coursework toward this master’s degree and waive the foundational requirement
MT 545 Introduction to Product Management
This course provides a foundational understanding of the product management role and the scope of responsibility for the product manager. The course will explore PM processes, strategies, and tools, with an emphasis on business-focused decision-making within the Five Product Movement model.
MT 550 Product Management Methodologies
The course introduces students to the leading theoretical approaches to product management, including Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and Waterfall approaches. Students will apply these methods to real-life product management situations.
MT 660 Data Analysis and Decision Making
Information is crucial to the role of the product manager. Collecting, mining, and analyzing data, from historical production costs to web analytics, from sales figures to customer retention rates, is central to effective product management. This course will cover essential techniques and software for managing data and explore the ways in which we can make sense of data and apply insights to practice.
MT 661 Business Communication for Product Managers
A product manager must direct operations across multiple functional areas, at varying levels of the organization. The ability to communicate clearly and effectively with multiple stakeholders is key to success in this field. This course will develop students’ understanding of the foundations of effective professional communication to diverse audiences through readings, discussion, and oral and written work.
MT 662 Product Development and Production
This course is centered on the vital middle stages of the product management life cycle—the development and operations stages. This course will examine various approaches to product development and survey the production process from procurement through delivery.
MT 663 Commercialization, Market Development, and Marketing
This course focuses on the role of the customer in shaping product management. Students will learn to evaluate marketing insights concerning customer behavior, demand, and pricing and incorporate this knowledge into a strategic, ethically informed approach to product development and management.
MT 664 Technical Strategy, Digital Service, and Service Design
In this course, students will explore services and product service systems, with an emphasis on the management of the entire product life cycle for services. For their final project, students will design a digital service launch.
MT 671 Capstone in Product Management
This capstone course is centered on a term-long integrative team project in which students will construct a complete product roadmap from ideation through the entire product management life cycle, in conjunction with faculty and industry mentors. The course will place the product management process within a holistic understanding of how marketing, R&D, procurement, manufacturing, sales, finance, IT, and other business functions impact product management.
MT 665 Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Product Management
This course covers the specific needs of the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and biomedical sectors for research-centered product management. Students will gain extensive familiarity with the rules, regulations, and best practices for the industry and with U.S. and international approval processes, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the EU European Medicines Agency (EMA).
MT 666 Design and Innovation in the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Markets
This course will focus on the crucial early stage, largely preclinical research phase in the product management life cycle in the life sciences. The course will explore emerging research techniques and innovations, such as gene splicing, bioprinting, tissue engineering, and the use of artificial intelligence in the drug discovery process.
MT 667 IT Product Management
This course examines the product life cycle in the context of the information technology sector. The course will discuss the unique challenges, such as shorter product life cycles, continuous updating, security testing, and uncertain intellectual property protections of the IT sector and provide industry-specific tools and techniques for product management.
MT 668 Design and Innovation in the IT Market
This course is centered on understanding the creative process in information technology, from ideation through beta testing, from a product management lens. Students will learn to manage standard operating procedures for software, application, and/or website development, as well as scheduled and unscheduled updates.
MT 669 Financial Product Management
This course will explore the specific needs of the financial services industry for product management, including the design, marketing, and administration of retail and business financial products. Students will gain expertise in the range of financial products, from investment to insurance, credit to savings, and in how to launch new financial services to various customer segments.
MT 670 Design and Innovation in the Finance Market
This course focuses on the development of new financial products across the breadth of the financial services industry. Students will gain expertise in assessing the potential profitability, market demand, and selling/promotional channels for new business and retail financial service offerings.
* MT 545 and MT 550 are the two courses included in Regis’ online Introduction to Product Management Certificate. If you have completed that certificate program, you can apply completed coursework toward this master’s degree and waive the foundational requirement.
Here’s what you need to apply
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution (all disciplines welcome)
- Official transcripts
- GPA of 2.75 or better preferred
- Letter of recommendation (professional or academic)
- Current resume
- Personal statement
- No GRE/GMAT required
- Transfer credits accepted
About Regis College
For more than 95 years, Regis College has supported learners in their journey to realize their full potential, reach their personal and professional goals, and become forces of good in the world. It’s our mission to help empower people to challenge themselves as they prepare to serve and lead through education.
With our focus on student success and our commitment to social justice and service, we help students in the greater Boston area and around the globe achieve more and go further.
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Diverse learning opportunities
Regis College is a coed university 12 miles west of Boston in Weston, Mass., founded by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Boston.
With more than 3,200 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students enrolled on campus and in fully online graduate programs, Regis provides an academically rigorous education within the schools of nursing, arts and sciences, business and communication, and health sciences.
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Business built for leadership
Through the Sloane School of Business and Communication at Regis, students learn the advanced skills needed not only to succeed in business, but to lead. Led by a faculty of experienced professionals who bring their real-world successes into the classroom, students engage in coursework that bridges theory with practical knowledge and skills.
Each program also includes cutting-edge seminars and prestigious internship opportunities across a wide variety of exciting and unique business settings.
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Via Veritas Vita
Our motto, Via Veritas Vita, translates to “the way and the truth and the light.” These words drive our mission of empowering learners through knowledge to live meaningful lives and contribute to our global society.
Today, Regis boasts an alumni network more than 20,000 strong. This supportive, tight-knit community has a history of professional success in the job market: 97% of our graduates find full-time work or pursue further education within six months of graduation.
Courtney E. Cole, PhD
Professor Courtney Cole is an associate professor with Regis, teaching business communication, organizational communication, and communication theory courses. She has consulted in the nonprofit, biotech, and pharma industries on topics like organizational change, equity, and inclusion issues.
Her research focuses on how large external forces like climate change, pandemics, and economic fluctuations affect the relationships that define employers, managers, and work output.
Meet your instructors
John Christie, PhD
John Christie serves as an assistant professor in our Global Business Management department. In addition to his PhD, Professor Christie holds a bachelor’s in business administration, an MBA, and a Master of Science in International Business. His work has been published in noteworthy journals relating to business and education, and he has served as a research peer reviewer for others in those fields.
Professor Christie has been a member of the Academy of International Business since 2009.