Our undergraduate program isn’t the only place where innovation and preparation is happening. Our graduate courses and certificates are preparing leaders in Risk Management through coursework and research. Here’s what’s happening in the graduate program!

The University of St. Thomas’ Risk Management & Insurance (RM&I) initiative contains several component parts. Under the general heading of Graduate Programming are two principal features:

1) The Graduate Certificate in Strategic Risk & and Responsibility

2) The Research Project. Included below is a list of the research conducted in the past five years by our graduate faculty.

 

The Graduate Certificate in Strategic Risk and Responsibility

Our graduate program is reorganizing for this academic year to create additional remote learning features. Here’s what we anticipate offering in the 2026-27 academic year, and beyond!

Graduate students of all interests are welcome to participate in MGMT 753. However, it should be noted that MGMT 753 also satisfies a key course requirement for the Opus College of Business’s (OCB’s) Certificate in Strategic Risk and Responsibility (SR&R).

Through delivery of a graduate certificate in Strategic Risk and Responsibility, OCB seeks to provide students knowledge and frameworks to improve the quality of managerial decisions in their organizations by exploring risk evaluation and decision theory, compliance programs and processes, and corporate responsibility and reputation. Graduate certificate students will explore the interconnectivity between these areas and gain fundamental skills in managing strategic risk and leadership, corporate governance, compliance, and business ethics—with particular attention paid to corporate social responsibility, sustainability, and resilience.

Certificate Structure

The certificate in Strategic Risk and Responsibility includes four 3-credit courses (12 total credits). The certificate draws on existing courses delivered by faculty from the Opus College of Business and the St. Thomas School of Law.

The curriculum structure is as follows (required or highly recommended courses are in bold; all others are optional):

· Risk Management – 3 credits

o MGMT 751 Risk Management – 3 credits

· Compliance – 3 credits

o BETH 650/LAWS 730 Compliance Programming – 3 credits

· Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability – 3 credits

o MGMT 753 Risk Leadership in a Global Context – 3 credits

o MGMT 714 Strategic Sustainability – 3 credits

o ENTR 708 Social Entrepreneurship – 3 credits

· Professional Effectiveness – 3 credits

o MGMT 623 Project Management – 3 credits

o BCOM 661 Reputation Management and Stakeholder Engagement – 3 credits

o BCOM 635 Persuasion – 3 credits

o MGMT 702 Leading Organizational Change – 3 credits

Students interested in learning more about the Certificate are encouraged to contact Professor Peter Young for further information (pcyoung@stthomas.edu; 605.645.7505).

The Research Project

 

Young, P.C. (2025). “Corporate and Public Responses to Uncertainty: Understanding the Challenge of Collaboration”, Chapter 20, Editors: TJ Andersen, Petersen, B, Ashbee, E. Business and Policy Challenges of Global Uncertainty: European Perspectives. World Scientific Publishing Europe Ltd.

Andersen, T. J., Young, P. C. (2024). Enhancing public sector enterprise risk management through interactive information processing. Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, https://doi.org/10.3389/frma.2023.1239447

Young, P. C., Hoang, T. (2024). The role of risk leadership in defining ERM readiness to adopt. The IBM Center for the Business of Government.

Ryan, R., Egan, T., Young, P. C., Burke, R. (2024). The role of leadership in embedding risk management: lessons from an Irish public sector organisation. International Journal Public Sector Performance Management, 1(1). 10.1504/IJPSPM.2024.10056247

Andersen, T. J., Young, P. C. (2023). Reshaping Public Sector (Enterprise) Risk Management. International Journal of Public Administration. DOI: 10.1080/01900692.2023.2197170

(2022) Young, P.C. Public/Private Risk Financing Innovation: The Case of Risk Pools. ADIA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation. Chapter 10. Springer Publishing. AIA In print, expected publication date June 30, 2022. Electronic ISSN: 2662-1789 Print ISSN: 2662-1770

Young, P.C. (2022). Public Sector Leadership in Assessing and Addressing Risk, Vol: 4. Emerald Studies in Finance, Insurance, and Risk Management. Editors P.C. Young, Simon Grima, Rebecca Dalli Gonzi. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing Ltd.

Andersen, Torben J., Peter C. Young (2021). Strategic Risk Leadership: Context and Cases. Abingdon: Routledge.

Andersen, T., Young, P. C. (2020). Strategic risk leadership: Engaging a world of risk, uncertainty, and the unknown. London: Routledge.