2018-2019 Graduate Catalog

Master of Arts in Education in Educational Administration and Supervision

36 credits

Admission requirements

Applicants for the MAE in Educational Administration and Supervision must complete the university application for graduate admission form and return it to the Graduate School. To be admitted to graduate study toward this master’s degree, a student must meet the following minimum criteria:

  1. Hold an earned bachelor’s degree from a college or university that is accredited by its regional accrediting association.
  2. Have one of the following: 
    • An undergraduate cumulative grade-point average (GPA) of at least 2.75 on a 4.0 scale.
    • A cumulative GPA of at least 3.0 on a 4.0 scale in the latter half of the baccalaureate.
    • A 3.2 GPA in 9 credits of graduate work approved by the chairperson in the major department and an acceptable score on the Graduate Record Examination (GRE). Such students will be considered probationary students until the conditions of their admission have been met.

Degree requirements

The MAE in Educational Administration and Supervision degree requires completion of at least 36 credits of graduate course work. A minimum of 27 credits must be completed in the major, supplemented by a course in research, a course in curriculum, and a foundations course.

A student must maintain a GPA of at least 3.2 on a 4.0 scale.

The following courses, totaling 27 credits, must be taken in educational administration and supervision.

Required courses

EDAD 600Intro to Ed Leadership

3

EDAD 630Human Resource Development

3

EDAD 635Educational Decision Making

3

EDAD 684Educational Finance and Ethics

3

EDAD 686School Law

3

EDAD 689The School Principal

3

EDAD 694Principal Internship

3

EDSU 650Supervision of Instruction

3

Total Credit Hours:27

The remaining 9 credits are designated as follows

EDCU 601Princ and Proc of Curr Dev

3

EDPS 640Research Methods

3

And one course from, 3 credits

EDFO 631Philosophy of Education

3

EDFO 641History of American Education

3

EDFO 651Educational Sociology

3

EDMU 660Multcl Multieth Ed in Amer Sch

3

Total Credit Hours:9

Total Credit Hours: 36