Students who meet the following requirements may be provisionally admitted to the program:
- Hold current professional teacher certification *
- Have earned a bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited U.S. institution or from an institution accredited by an equivalent accrediting body or a comparable degree from an international institution
- Have earned a GPA of at least 3.0 on bachelor’s degree +
- Submit a current (within five years) official Graduate Record Exam (GRE) verbal score OR Miller’s Analogies Test (MAT) score
- Submit a letter of intent that includes the following information: your background, short- and long-term goals, contributions you would like to make to your field of study, and strengths you bring to the program
- Submit contact information (email addresses and phone numbers) for two professional references
- Be in good standing at all previous institutions of higher learning. Students who, for academic or disciplinary reasons, are not eligible to register in the college or university last attended will not be admitted for graduate study
To be fully admitted to the program, the following requirements must be met in addition to the requirements for provisional admission (above). Full admission is required by the fifth week of the first semester. Students will be unable to register for a second semester of coursework until full admission has been granted.
- Completion of the Professional Education Applicant Disposition Scale by each person identified as a professional reference (the Graduate Advising Office will contact each professional reference with instructions)
- Purchase and activation of a subscription to the School of Education's assessment system, Tk20
- Completion of the Professional Education Applicant Disposition Self-rating Scale within Tk20
* Note: Current professional teaching certification is not required for the following candidates:
- Those enrolling in the Curriculum & Instruction/Primary Education program or the Exceptional Student Education program who intend to work in an agency setting rather than teach
- Those pursuing the Exceptional Student Education cognate in Applied Behavior Analysis
+ Note: Applicants who do not meet the GPA requirement but submit a current GRE verbal score of at least 460 or MAT score of at least 413 and meet all remaining admission requirements may be conditionally admitted to the program. A student who is admitted in a conditional status and does not meet final three requirements may be admitted in both a conditional and provisional status.
Ç Note: Applicants who do not meet the GPA requirement but submit a current GRE verbal score of at least 460 or MAT score of at least 413 and meet all remaining admission requirements may be conditionally admitted to the program. A student who is admitted in a conditional status and does not meet final three requirements may be admitted in both a conditional and provisional status.