For 10 years now, Brown’s School of Professional Studies (SPS) has been inspiring and preparing learners to transform the way the world works.
That’s the ambitious goal that the school was established to pursue. As SPS celebrated its tenth anniversary throughout the 2024-25 academic year, its faculty, staff, students, and alumni reflected on how far the school has come in achieving that.
SPS has significantly evolved over its first decade—continuously growing, innovating, and adapting to keep up with the rapid changes in the professional landscape.
Today, the school offers an extensive list of flexible, hybrid graduate degree and certificate programs—from a master’s degree in healthcare leadership to an executive MBA to certificates in mindfulness teaching and artificial intelligence. Though each program is unique, all are designed to equip professionals with skills and knowledge needed to lead the workplaces of the future.
The anniversary celebrations included a roadshow of events that culminated in a conversation between Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi ’91 and President Christina H. Paxson. That final event, which was titled “Going Beyond: Lessons in Leadership and Innovation,” was attended by nearly 450 students and community members. A “10 for 10” story series also featured remarkable faculty, staff, and alumni that helped shape its first decade.
As SPS moves into its second decade, it will continue to expand and evolve—in fact, the school just launched two new online master’s programs in management and organizational leadership.
No matter what they studied, SPS alumni have one thing in common—they’re prepared to find solutions to modern challenges, and they’re ready to change the world for the better.
Here are three examples of how recent alumni have leveraged their SPS experience to transform their careers and help others.