Graduate Department of Defense and Strategic Studies, M.S.U.

Missouri State University’s Department of Defense and Strategic Studies (DSS), located in Fairfax, VA, provides professional, graduate-level education in national security policy; cyber security; WMD proliferation; international terrorism; military operations; global security challenges; foreign policy; arms control; missile proliferation; international security affairs; defense policy analysis, planning and programs; and intelligence analysis. The Department offers a Master of Science degree in Defense and Strategic Studies with the successful completion of 36 semester hours of study, and a Certificate Program in Defense and Strategic Studies after the successful completion of 9 hours of graduate study. The Department recently has been approved to also offer a more specialized Master of Science degree in Weapons of Mass Destruction Studies for a select group of students selected by the National Defense University.

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