Master of Science in Logistics Management Online

Meet the rising demand for logisticians and related roles with an online program that prepares you to manage a company’s flow of goods, resources and information from their source to their final destination.

Apply By: 5/5/25
Start Class: 5/19/25
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Program Overview

Read about Florida Tech’s MS in Logistics Management online program

Expand your career opportunities in retail, finance, distribution and government when you earn a Master of Science in Logistics Management from Florida Institute of Technology. Esteemed faculty recognized for academic and industry achievements will develop your ability to move products efficiently while navigating the complex global marketplace and reducing operating costs.

This MS online program, for which you’re eligible if you have a bachelor’s in any subject, is especially well-suited for active-duty military and veteran service members. For more than 50 years, Florida Tech has been involved in training military logisticians. Join the five astronauts, 46 generals and thousands of service members who have completed Florida Tech’s logistics management master’s degrees to advance their careers.

As a graduate of this program, you will be prepared to:

  • Evaluate complex logistics strategies for informed decision making by identifying economic trends, core engineering principles and analyzing effective logistics management techniques and principles in organizations
  • Support and clarify your messages by using the appropriate vocabulary to convey information, concepts and ideas orally
  • Clearly and effectively convey information by utilizing the proper form, emphasis, usage, spelling and punctuation to ensure quality through the written medium
  • Analyze a situation or text and make thoughtful decisions based on that analysis
  • Conduct research from primary and secondary sources; evaluate those sources' credibility, bias, evidence and reasoning; identify and challenge writer's assumptions; and write texts that are informed by one's research
As a graduate of this program, you will be prepared to:
  • Evaluate complex logistics strategies for informed decision making by identifying economic trends, core engineering principles and analyzing effective logistics management techniques and principles in organizations
  • Support and clarify your messages by using the appropriate vocabulary to convey information, concepts and ideas orally
  • Clearly and effectively convey information by utilizing the proper form, emphasis, usage, spelling and punctuation to ensure quality through the written medium
  • Analyze a situation or text and make thoughtful decisions based on that analysis
  • Conduct research from primary and secondary sources; evaluate those sources' credibility, bias, evidence and reasoning; identify and challenge writer's assumptions; and write texts that are informed by one's research

Career opportunities:

  • Logistician
  • Transportation manager
  • Storage manager
  • Distribution manager
  • Inventory manager
  • Supply chain manager
Career opportunities:
  • Logistician
  • Transportation manager
  • Storage manager
  • Distribution manager
  • Inventory manager
  • Supply chain manager

Also available:

At Florida Tech, we offer a variety of in-demand online programs that prepare you with relevant skills for your career of choice. Take a look at our other business programs.

Also available:

At Florida Tech, we offer a variety of in-demand online programs that prepare you with relevant skills for your career of choice. Take a look at our other business programs.

Total Tuition $21,010.11*
Duration As few as 15 months
Credit Hours 33
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Tuition

Plan for your MS with our pay-by-the-course tuition

Tuition for the MS in Logistics Management is affordable. Take advantage of our pay-by-the-course system, so you can manage your budget as you pursue your degree. Technology fees are included in the total tuition.

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Program Per Credit Hour Per Course Per Program
MS Logistics Management $636.67 $1,910.01 $21,010.11

*Published tuition costs may differ from a student’s estimated total “cost of attendance,” which includes the amount an online student may choose to spend on expenses such as housing and food, books and supplies, transportation and other personal items or activities per academic year. As a Florida Tech Online student, you will only ever be billed for applicable tuition and fees. All other costs listed below are estimates per academic year required by the federal government to help you budget for your education. For further information regarding program tuition and fees, please reach out to your enrollment representative or refer to the undergraduate or graduate fees policy. View full cost of attendance information.

Potential Expenses Per Year

Program Technology Fees Federal Student Loan Fees Housing & Food Books & Supplies Transport Personal Expenses Total
MS Logistics Management (Full-Time) $300 $166 $15,240 $1,200 $1,500 $2,100 $
MS Logistics Management (Part-Time) $150 $166 $7,620 $600 $750 $1,050

Tuition breakdown:

Total Tuition $21,010.11*
Per Credit Hour $636.67

Calendar

Know these important dates and deadlines

The MS in Logistics Management online program is ideal for working students. Choose from multiple start dates and complete your degree at the pace that best fits your schedule.

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TermStart DateApp DeadlineDocument DeadlineRegistration DeadlineTuition DeadlineClass End DateTerm Length
Summer 20255/19/255/5/255/12/255/14/255/16/257/13/258 weeks

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Next Apply Date 5/5/25
Start Class 5/19/25

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Admissions

Here’s how to apply to the master’s in logistics management program

At Florida Tech, we’ve streamlined the admission process to help you get started quickly. Please read the requirements for the MS in Logistics Management online program.

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  • Application for admissions
  • Earned bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university
  • Official transcripts from all colleges and universities
  • Current résumé
  • Undergraduate cumulative GPA of 3.0 on 4.0 scale

Official transcripts, test scores and other documents should be sent to:

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Admission Requirements

  • No application fee
  • No GMAT/GRE
  • GPA of 3.0 or above

Courses

Browse the courses in our logistics management master’s program

For the MS in Logistics Management online, the curriculum comprises 33 logistics management course credit hours.

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Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Studies methods of collecting, analyzing and interpreting data for managerial decision making. Includes data presentation, measures of central tendency, dispersion and skewness; discrete and continuous probability distributions; sampling methods and sampling distributions; and confidence interval estimation of parameters and tests of hypotheses.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Addresses the management of evolving systems. Emphasizes planning and support requirements of the system during its life cycle. Includes maintenance planning, physical distribution, manpower requirements, facilities and equipment needs, documentation, systems integration and other support requirements.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Analyzes logistics as a science and provides a comparative analysis of different policy considerations. Reviews the role of logistics in organizational policy and problems, and future trends in logistics. Involves a significant research paper or challenging capstone project designed to demonstrate mastery over the complete curriculum.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Includes management techniques and methods related to the life cycle management of material. Addresses material management systems and concepts of standardization, modernization, material reserve, cataloguing, pro-ordering, storage and distribution.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Covers cost effectiveness, trade-off analysis, system effectiveness model structure, criteria for evaluation of alternative systems, principles of cost accounting and cost estimating for system life cycle. Includes basic math for cost-effective analysis, computer tools for economic modeling and risk assessment.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Combines lectures, class discussions on assigned topics and case analyses. Includes the role of SCM in the economy and organizations; customer service; SCM information systems; inventory management; managing materials flow and handling; transportation; warehousing; computerization and packaging issues; purchasing; global logistics; organizing for effective SCM; methods to control SCM performance; and implementing SCM strategy.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Covers advanced theory and practice of supply chain management including operational and logistics support. Provides an understanding of strategy, organizational structure and new technologies in SCM. Includes the Internet and its effect on SCM, and the concepts and tools used in SCM. Examines requirements, specifications, planning, program design, and maintenance and quality assurance of SCM systems.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Distribution systems and management from a cost vs. return view. U.S. and world transportation systems’ impact on distribution centers, automated order processing, warehousing techniques and layout, organization for physical distribution management, total systems approach, government regulation, distribution components and management of distribution resources.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Involves a team-based consulting activity for an outside client organization. Requires a project, written report and presentation assessed for synthesis of learned competencies in oral and written communication, critical thinking and logistics management.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Reviews research methods in managerial disciplines. Includes nature and sources of secondary data, primary data collection techniques, design of research projects, sample selection, model building, etc. Requires a research proposal and presentation of a fully documented research report on the results of the study.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Addresses responsibility and authority of a program manager and the integration of program functions in complex organizational structures. Discusses interpersonal relationships within matrix organizations, as well as program conflict resolution and organizational priorities.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Explores issues surrounding the employment of human resources in various organizational settings using lectures/guided discussions and case studies. May include recruitment/selection, job analyses/evaluation, equal employment opportunity, training/development, compensation/benefits, appraisal, labor relations, health and safety, and separation/retirement.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Includes determination of requirements for management of major and secondary items. Reviews the needs and techniques for accurate asset reporting and analysis of demand data for customers’ requirements. Emphasizes problems related to unstable items and management methods required to integrate asset acquisition and management into the life cycle program.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Examines the various means of directing, controlling and supervising functions involved in furnishing transportation services and facilities. Examines in detail service support to the customer and the principles and problems involved.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Examines the life cycle process of acquisition of materiel and materiel systems. Examines systems management and its application from acquisition to termination. Studies need requirements, cost and schedule considerations and procurement procedures.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Studies various contemporary carrier modes, emphasizing management problems common to all modes of domestic and international transportation. Investigates and discusses transportation engineering, use of transportation facilities and materiel, and economic, personnel, labor and union aspects.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Provides the framework for integrated logistics support (ILS). Discusses the management tools available to logistics managers and places ILS in perspective within the acquisition process. Includes understanding of all elements of ILS, the relationship of ILS elements to ILS planning and current systems acquisition practices.
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