Organizational Studies

For Fall 2023 Transfer Students to UM: OS Application Deadline Extension to Feb 1! See details in Prospective Student - Transfer Students section

Design Your Own Learning Experience Organizational Studies is a vibrant community where we hope you will want to spend time and make friends.

Exclusive Awards and Scholarships Available to OS Students We offer our students incredible opportunities and assistance for studying abroad!

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Project-Based Curriculum Quantitative Skills and Senior Research Capstone requirements give students the tools necessary to engage in various types of research in organizations, and provide the opportunity for real-world experience in organizational research.

Exclusive Access to Alumni Networks OS students have exclusive access to our extensive alumni network! Our alumni represent a link from OS to a broader environment beyond the boundaries of the University of Michigan.

Student Leadership The OS Program is proud to offer a wide array of student engagement opportunities. This contributes to fostering our small and engaged community of students, faculty, and staff. Student-led committees and organizations are fundamental to the diverse character of the OS Community.

What does the trajectory of a student who chooses this path actually look like? Take a look at the timeline of some of our OS alums, and see how their pathways shaped their futures.

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What's Happening in OS

OS Welcomes LSA Collegiate Fellow Davon Norris

"My research focuses on understanding the ways that inequality—particularly racial inequality—manifests through financial channels like credit and debt and through calculative channels like algorithmic scores and ratings."

Riley List Named 2022-23 Andy and Ellyn Lansing Leader Scholar

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The Organizational Studies Program embraces the University of Michigan’s commitment to an environment that values and respects people of all races, colors, national origins, ages, sexes, sexual orientations, gender identities, gender expressions, abilities, religions, heights, weights, and veteran or marital statuses. We value diversity as it makes our unit stronger in its scholarship, teaching, and service to the campus and communities beyond.

Our efforts to promote diversity start with our curriculum. First, we are committed to offering courses that address issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in organizations and in society more broadly. Additionally, as an interdisciplinary academic unit, we are committed to understanding organizational problems from a diversity of social scientific perspectives.

We also strive for a diverse student cohort to engage organizational issues by bringing varying life experiences to the classroom. This includes social identity diversity as well as diversity in students’ academic and professional interests.

As a community, we oppose all expressions of bigotry and hate. We support those individuals in our community who stand up against expressions of bigotry, racism, white supremacy, and hatred, wherever they are found.

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We strive to support our students and faculty on the front lines of learning and research and to steward our planet, our community, our campus. To do this, Organizational Studies needs your support.