What is the MRDM program focus?

The MR&DM is a flexible and fully online graduate program designed to develop knowledge and skills in effective leadership of government and private research and development (R&D) organizations and research funding institutions. The specialized curriculum covers the development, management, and implementation of research initiatives, including developing research collaborations and partnerships, proposal preparation and submission, contracts negotiation and management of research projects, financial management, technology commercialization, intellectual property rights, and compliance with government regulations and policies. The curriculum also includes management courses that place emphasis on leadership, ethics, and strategic planning with focus on project and technology management. The program is intended for researchers, scientists, engineers, and support personnel of HEIs, government agencies, and private research organizations who would like to improve their R&D management skills and capabilities.

Program Outcomes

The MR&DM program aims to produce graduates who are able to:

1. Demonstrate enhanced managerial leadership with an R&D-oriented perspective in organizing, directing, monitoring, and evaluating R&D organization;
2. Influence the transformation of R&D system as a productive, dynamic, cost-effective, environmentally adaptive, socially relevant, ethical and development-oriented organization; and
3. Lead an implementing strategic R&D management innovations in technology generation, commercialization, and societal development.

The MR&DM program will be offered online, consistent with UPOU's mandate to provide opportunities for alternative access to quality higher education by offering baccalaureate and post-baccalaureate degree programs by distance education, as well as RA 10650 (Open Distance Learning Act), which provides for expanding access to educational services by institutionalizing open distance learning in Philippine higher education.

For further details on admission processes, you may visit https://fmds.upou.edu.ph/academics/post-bac/mrdm/.