Education Studies

The Master’s degree in Education Studies is a graduate degree program designed to meet the interests and needs of graduate students wishing to pursue a degree program tailored to their professional and academic needs. This program of study is targeted to students whose goals are broad, interdisciplinary, and flexible. Graduate students can pursue academic concentrations allowing them to take maximum advantage of courses and resources in the Graduate School of Education (GSE). The concentrations are offered in two departments: the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy (ELP) and the Department of Learning and Instruction (LAI).

• Adult Education (LAI)
• Comparative and Global Education (ELP)
• Early Childhood-Foreign Language Education (LAI)
• Educational Culture, Policy and Society (ELP)
• Education Informatics (LAI)
• Leadership in Schools (ELP)
• Literacy Education (LAI)
• Educational Technology/New Literacies Advanced Certificate (LAI)

General Degree Requirements

All concentrations in Education Studies Ed.M. degree program require students to fulfill the following requirements for conferral. Each concentration may require concentration-specific requirements in addition to the following program-general requirements. Applicants are encouraged to contact the concentration coordinator for details.

1.     Students are required to maintain continuous registration.
2.     Students are required to complete a minimum of 32 credit hours of graduate study.

a.     Sixteen of the 32 credit hours are required to be taken within the GSE.

b.     A maximum of 6 hours of transfer credit of graduate courses, completed with

grades of “B” or above from an accredited institution, may be included in the student’s program if approved by the advisor and the department.

3.     Students are required to file an Application to Candidacy (ATC) for the Ed.M. degree in

Education Studies with the department for submission to the GSE Graduate Degrees Committee after completion of 12 credit hours and prior to completion of 24 credit hours.

a.     Students’ program of study designed in consultation with the advisor should

represent a coherent academic plan directly linked to the rationale, i.e., the relationship of the program to the student’s educational goals, in the ATC.

b.     If the student takes an informal course, e.g., Independent Study, as a part of the

program, the Informal Course Description form, approved before the student registers for the course, is required to the attached to the ATC.

4.     Students are required to pass a comprehension exam or complete a master’s project

or thesis.

5.     Students are required to complete the program within 5 years.