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MSPCI - A Leadership Program for Homeland Security What's New
Offered through the Department of Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington, the Master in Strategic Planning for Critical Infrastructures (MSPCI) is a fully accredited online master's degree program. MSPCI provides professionals throughout the nation with a complex systems understanding of critical infrastructures and their interconnections.

Throughout this online program, you will learn to apply advanced strategic planning and decision-making strategies to:
  • Analyze the vulnerabilities of critical infrastructures
  • Plan responses to failures
  • Develop resilience
As a result, you will have skills to ensure the continuity of operations at any public, private, or government organization. And you will understand how to respond to challenges, such as natural disasters and intentional attacks, that impact our nation's critical infrastructure systems.

Earn a valuable advanced degree from a top-ranked university and become invaluable as a result. Because the program is fully online, you don't have to leave your current job to develop a diverse set of analytic, planning, and decision-making skills that will be vital to any organization's operations, as well as the welfare of your community.

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The MSPCI program is no longer accepting applications for Fall 2009 admission. Click here for information on single-course enrollment.

MSPCI-Related Certificate Programs
Certificate Program in Critical Infrastructures Protection (online) »

Certificate Program in Emergency Management (online) »

Watch an online information session about the MSPCI program. (Flash plug-in required.) »

Watch experts discuss dangers to networked infrastructure systems in the three-part lecture "Our Infrastructures - Online and Vulnerable?", co-sponsored by the MSPCI program.
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