Master of Education - Curriculum and Instruction

The Master of Education (MEd) degree is designed to meet the needs of elementary and secondary classroom teachers, subject matter specialists, and educational scholars and researchers. The MEd degree has three options: the Professional Educator, Educational Researcher, and Technology Education. The Professional Educator option is a totally online program.

Graduates of the EdD and PhD programs in Education receive equally rigorous scholarly training. Both degrees require coursework that develops knowledge of the interdisciplinary nature of education, skills and expertise in the range of methodologies needed to conduct high-quality and rigorous educational research, and values becoming of an ethical and scholarly researcher or practitioner.

Although these two programs share much in common, each program has a distinct focus. Graduates of the PhD program will prepare to advance the field of education through the creation and dissemination of new knowledge by specializing in research. Graduates of the EdD will prepare to work as leaders and innovators in educational settings, where they will generate and apply research-based solutions to specific problems of practice.