Benefits

Develop all of your potential...

Studying creativity, creative problem solving, and change leadership enables individuals to expand their abilities and develop all of their potential. Leaders who know how to effect and manage change are in demand in every industry throughout the world. Graduates of Buffalo State’s programs:

  • Develop exceptional interpersonal and communication skills
  • Experience intellectual challenge and growth
  • Learn habits that put them in control of change
  • Join an international community dedicated to acquiring strategies that nurture creative talent
  • Improve their ability to manage diverse groups
  • Become experts in facilitating problem-solving groups, using problem-solving tools to define complex problems
  • Generate creative solutions and transform solutions into action
  • Earn unique and prestigious academic credentials that clearly set them apart from others

Career Opportunities

What can you do with a master’s degree in creativity? Since the need for creative thinking is so universal, a degree in creative studies can take you just about anywhere. Opportunities are abundant: you will find our alumni in schools, financial institutions, art institutions, major corporations, and consulting firms. Graduates have learned how to nurture creativity in themselves, others, and the organizations in which they work. For examples of how our graduates have used their certificates and degrees view our Success Stories here.

What can I do with a degree in creativity?

A degree in Creativity prepares leaders for today's fast-paced and complex global enterprise system. Creativity, creative problem solving and change leadership are issues at the frontier of the global community.

Applied creative thinking skills prepare students for careers in twenty-first century organizations, creating new, useful and practical solutions to real-world problems. The most common question is where are the jobs in creativity? The list below - which is NOT comprehensive - shows the places, the jobs, the tasks being done by our graduates.

  • Administrator/director
  • Leadership consultant
  • Business manager
  • Faculty
  • Senior business analyst
  • Business researcher/writer
  • Organizational consultant
  • Executive-level management
  • CEO, CFO, COO, CLO, president, director
  • Corporations
  • Consulting firms
  • Colleges and universities
  • Non-governmental organizations/non-profit agency
  • Government
  • Management
  • Managing, leading and supervising
  • Communication
  • Advertising
  • Managing conflict and change
  • Building effective teams
  • Research
  • Performing arts
  • Career counseling
  • Education
  • Anthropology
  • Biology
  • Business
  • Marketing
  • Engineering
  • Chemistry
  • Coaching
  • Computer information
  • Criminal justice
  • Dietetics
  • Psychology
  • Psychiatrics
  • Economics
  • Politics
  • Writing
  • Performing arts
  • Fashion industries
  • Forensics
  • Languages
  • Interior design
  • Landscape architecture
  • Architecture
  • Geology
  • Hospitality administration
  • Technology
  • Journalism
  • Law
  • Mathematics
  • Museum administration
  • Philosophy
  • Physics
  • Science
  • Public administration
  • Sculpture
  • Social work
  • Television
  • Theater
  • Urban and regional planning