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Develop your distribution expertise

Lead an industrial distribution business or the distribution arm of your company? ProSTAR’s MS in Technology with a concentration in Industrial Distribution weekend program is designed just for you. You’ll build technical and leadership skills specific to distribution—in classes led by Purdue faculty and industry experts from around the country.

This flexible program consists of four semesters (fall, spring, fall, spring) with three on-campus weekends each semester and ongoing faculty contact through distance-learning tools. That means you can complete your degree in just 22 months while balancing your professional and personal commitments.

Program highlights

• Benefit from courses designed specifically for industrial distribution executives
• Master analytic tools for business decision making
• Gain insights into economic, social & political forces that shape decisions in industrial distribution
• Complete a capstone project to improve a technical, business or operational process in distribution, applying what you’ve learned to a real-life situation

Sample course topics

• Global supply chain management
• Operations system technology
• Financial management
• Sales management & negotiation
• Lean & Six Sigma applications
• Strategic policy management

Program Fees

Industrial Distribution Program Fees