Master of Tri-Sector Collaboration (MTSC)

The barriers between the public and private sectors are breaking down. Governments are turning to business and civil sectors to help solve ‘wicked’, complex problems. Business is called upon to regulate itself, to report on and manage its social and environmental impacts, and to create whole new business models to supplement or replace weak government.

Yet public policy and business training remain rigidly segregated. Professionals lack the necessary interdisciplinary knowledge and tools to make such collaborations successful. The ground-breaking SMU Master of Tri-Sector Collaboration (MTSC) brings together mid-career managers from government, business, and civil society for 11 intensive weeks, spread out over 18 months, using a unique curriculum developed via roundtables, surveys, and hundreds of conversations in Asia and the West. Students stay in their jobs throughout the programme, empowering them to become social intrapreneurs within their organisations, applying their new skills and knowledge from the very start of the programme.