MS in Technology Management & Leadership (MSTML)

The MS in Technology, Management, and Leadership (MSTML) is for tech professionals ready to shape products, lead teams, and drive digital transformation. Built for those who understand that tomorrow's technology leaders need more than technical skills, we'll help you master the business acumen and leadership capabilities that accelerate your career and expand your impact.

Through hands-on projects and mentorship from executives who've led digital transformations, you'll gain the strategic thinking and business fluency that prepare you for senior leadership roles. MSTML develops tech professionals into business-savvy leaders—that's applied business in action.

• Career advancement accelerated
• 95% recommend
• Part-time
• Employer sponsorship available
• Flexible pathway system

You live at the intersection of technology and customers. Data and decisions. Technical feasibility and market realities. You’ve shipped products that scale, built systems that perform, solved problems that matter.

But something's shifting. The tech leaders everyone wants know what's possible. They know what's profitable, what's strategic, what's worth building in the first place. They can defend product decisions as eloquently as implementing them. They speak to boards as fluently as they speak to developers.

Add business fluency to your technical excellence and become unstoppable. Transform your career: set roadmaps and implement them with excellence, define success metrics and optimize them, decide what gets built and ensure it's built well.

It's time to become the leader who bridges technology and business.

Built for Your Reality

• Sprint-compatible:  7-week courses align with your release cycles
• Digital-first focus: Designed for product managers, data scientists, and tech strategists
• Flexible formats:  Online, in-person, or both. Your choice.
• Working professional friendly: Evening classes, recorded sessions.
• Employer sponsorship available.

Choose Your Path

Part-Time Program: Keep Working, Keep Learning

Continue crushing it at work while transforming your career. Take 2-3 years at your pace with recorded 60-minute evening classes from anywhere, or join us on campus when you can. Start in Fall, Spring, or Summer. The best program fits your life.

Flexible Pathway System

Customize your degree with 14 elective credits that align with your career goals. Choose from established pathways in Product Management, Business Analytics, Computer Science, or Data Science—or design your own unique journey combining courses from TGI's innovation portfolio, technical depth from School of Engineering, or global perspective from Fletcher School.

Core

Master the essential capabilities through accelerated 7-week courses.

Build the complete tech leadership toolkit through integrated coursework in strategic thinking, business fundamentals, and data-driven decision making. Master the C-suite language while developing skills to influence without authority. Apply everything through your Capstone Leadership Project—lead a technology transformation in your organization with faculty guidance, delivering measurable impact on new systems, redesigned processes, or digital initiatives.

Pathways

Choose 14 credits that deepen your expertise and expand your impact.

Focus your electives through established pathways in Product Management, Business Analytics, Computer Science, or Data Science. Or create your own flexible pathway, combining courses that match your unique career trajectory and interests.

Extend

Enhance your degree with additional opportunities that fit your goals.

• Co-Op: Apply classroom frameworks to tech leadership challenges through up to six months of full-time work experience. Transform theory into practice while exploring new industries or functions.
• Dual Degree: Combine engineering depth with management breadth. Pursue MSTML plus a technical MS to become the rare leader who can go deep on technology while thinking strategically about business, and save 20% on both degrees.
• Fifth Year Fast-Track: Tufts undergrads jumpstart their leadership journey, earning their MSTML in just one additional year. Enter the workforce with both a technical foundation and management capability.