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Succession, sibling labour, and Main Street—not a private-bank wealth product and not an MBA clone.
Online or on campus
Family enterprise in the Midwest is the job shop whose quality manager is also a cousin, the dairy that is a co-op member, the dealer group that still meets at Christmas. This degree starts with labour, conflict, and continuity—not with a Swiss family-office elective. You will design meeting rights, read a simple cap table as a manager (not as unlicensed securities advice), and treat non-family professionals as a retention problem. Dual-pathway applicants state primary mode. English-medium waiver includes U.S. regionally accredited bachelor's. HLC and DEAC remain institutional; this MSc is not an MBA substitute in the catalogue even when the fallback image is an MBA visual. Campus family-firm roundtables, if held, produce the same written continuity artefact online students submit. You will map sibling labour, non-family professionals, and winter payroll as the Midwest problem, not a private-bank family office. Faculty will fail capstones that practise law, impersonate a CPA, or display bank logos. Succession conversations are facilitated as management process, not as therapy or estate practice. Main Street shops, plants, and farms are the case set. Catalogue level remains MSC. The award is academic. It is not legal practice, not financial-planning licensure, not a promise that the firm will survive. Public copy must keep those fences. MSc Family Enterprise (Midwest) is taught as one award, not a list of unrelated modules. The published length is 18 months, and the credit total is 36. Students move from Closely Held Firms in the Upper Midwest through Closely Held Firms in the Upper Midwest; Governance, Meetings, and Decision Rights; Family Labour, Fairness, and Non-Family Professionals; Plants, Stores, and Farms as Family Operating Systems; Winter Continuity and Key-Person Risk; Customers, Community, and Reputation, and finish on Dual-Pathway Assessment in Enterprise Education. Each course has a question, a method, and a submission. In this field, students apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result. Reading is a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. The artefact a marker expects is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim. The award is built so that a graduate can do the following in practice: Map family and firm governance without legal-practice pretence Design operations continuity through Midwest seasons and succession Brief family and non-family stakeholders in plain numbers Teaching assumes the student can read a source, attempt a problem before the seminar, and revise after feedback. Attendance at live seminars is part of the design. The capstone or final course must use the methods of the earlier courses; a project that ignores them does not pass. The pages for each course name the topics that are examined. Those topics are the syllabus. A brochure line is not a substitute for them.
Thirty-six credits: family-firm institutions, Midwest operations, money-and-conflict literacy (non-licence), and a continuity capstone. Three-credit courses. Identity-checked assessment.
Complete your MSc Family Enterprise (Midwest) fully online from anywhere in the world with faculty-led modules and flexible scheduling.
Attend seminars and access facilities in person at Crownshire University. Campus tuition and campus examinations are charged.
| Code | Course | Credits · hours |
|---|---|---|
| MLT2501 | Closely Held Firms in the Upper Midwest Students name the methods used in this subject and apply one of them to a short case. The module is Closely Held Firms in the Upper Midwest.
| 3 |
| MLT2502 | Governance, Meetings, and Decision Rights Students compare two cases and explain why the outcomes differed. The module is Governance, Meetings, and Decision Rights.
| 3 |
| MLT2503 | Family Labour, Fairness, and Non-Family Professionals Students produce a professional artefact, with sources and a review of its weaknesses. The module is Family Labour, Fairness, and Non-Family Professionals.
| 3 |
| MLT2504 | Ethics, Privacy, and Public Claims Students complete a supervised project and defend the method and the result. The module is Ethics, Privacy, and Public Claims.
| 3 |
| Code | Course | Credits · hours |
|---|---|---|
| MLT2505 | Plants, Stores, and Farms as Family Operating Systems Students name the methods used in this subject and apply one of them to a short case. The module is Plants, Stores, and Farms as Family Operating Systems.
| 3 |
| MLT2506 | Winter Continuity and Key-Person Risk Students compare two cases and explain why the outcomes differed. The module is Winter Continuity and Key-Person Risk.
| 3 |
| MLT2507 | Customers, Community, and Reputation Students produce a professional artefact, with sources and a review of its weaknesses. The module is Customers, Community, and Reputation.
| 3 |
| MLT2508 | Digital Pathway Work for Firms that Still Live on Main Street Students complete a supervised project and defend the method and the result. The module is Digital Pathway Work for Firms that Still Live on Main Street.
| 3 |
| Code | Course | Credits · hours |
|---|---|---|
| MLT2509 | Financial Statements for Family Managers (Not CPA) Students name the methods used in this subject and apply one of them to a short case. The module is Financial Statements for Family Managers (Not CPA).
| 3 |
| MLT2510 | Banking Relationships without NMLS Pretence Students compare two cases and explain why the outcomes differed. The module is Banking Relationships without NMLS Pretence.
| 3 |
| MLT2511 | Buy-Sell Folklore versus Calling Counsel Students produce a professional artefact, with sources and a review of its weaknesses. The module is Buy-Sell Folklore versus Calling Counsel.
| 3 |
| MLT2512 | Philanthropy, Farms, and Estate Adjacent Literacy (Not Legal Practice) Students complete a supervised project and defend the method and the result. The module is Philanthropy, Farms, and Estate Adjacent Literacy (Not Legal Practice).
| 3 |
| Code | Course | Credits · hours |
|---|---|---|
| MLT2513 | Facilitating a Succession Conversation (Non-Therapy, Non-Law) Students name the methods used in this subject and apply one of them to a short case. The module is Facilitating a Succession Conversation (Non-Therapy, Non-Law).
| 3 |
| MLT2514 | Writing for Family and Board Audiences Students compare two cases and explain why the outcomes differed. The module is Writing for Family and Board Audiences.
| 3 |
| MLT2515 | Dual-Pathway Assessment in Enterprise Education Students produce a professional artefact, with sources and a review of its weaknesses. The module is Dual-Pathway Assessment in Enterprise Education.
| 3 |
| MLT2516 | Capstone: Midwest Family Enterprise Continuity Project Students complete a supervised project and defend the method and the result. The module is Capstone: Midwest Family Enterprise Continuity Project.
| 3 |
Modules are assessed through a published mix of coursework, applied projects, and examinations. Exam windows are announced in advance so students in other time zones are not forced into overnight sittings. Alternative arrangements are available where documented.
The published duration is 18 months. Teaching language: English. Actual time-to-complete depends on mode and any recognised prior learning.
You may study this award fully online from your country, or — where published — on campus at Crownshire. Online study does not require a student visa. Campus study may.
Degree tuition for this award is published as £0 / tuition-free on the online pathway. Examination or administrative fees may apply at checkout — never an annual tuition invoice. Check the Fees page for any extras.
Requirements are grouped on this page (academic, English, documents). Equivalent qualifications are considered. English may be waived after prior English-medium study.
Assessment is typically a mix of coursework, projects, and examinations. Doctoral awards include a thesis or dissertation and an oral examination. Details sit in the programme specification and module outlines.
Recognition of the award for local employment, professional licence, or ministry attestation is decided by your employer or regulator. Crownshire University publishes verification pages for certificates. We do not claim automatic equivalence in every country.
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