Master of Education

Upon a completion of your Master of Education you will learn the following:

Content Knowledge Goal: Master teachers utilize content knowledge to raise the achievement of PK-12 learners.

1. Demonstrate growth in content knowledge related to concentration area and the application of content knowledge to classroom instruction and assessment.

Pedagogy Goal: Master teachers utilize best practices in instruction and assessment to raise achievement of PK-12 learners.

1. Understand scientifically-based practices in teaching and learning, including strategies in literacy education, instructional technology, differentiation of instruction, and apply them to raise student achievement.
2. Demonstrate multiple means of assessing and evaluating student learning and use them to change teaching and learning.

Professional Development and School Reform Goal: Master teachers understand the process for professional change in their own practice and in education, including the interpretation of educational research.

1. Locate, interpret, synthesize, and apply educational research in best practices in teaching.
2. Understand models for professional change, including teacher collaboration, professional learning communities, strategies for mentoring and coaching to facilitate change, and effective professional development.
3. Demonstrate understanding of reflective practice that results in improved classroom teaching and learning, including teacher reflection, use of technology in self-assessment, collaboration for change, and self-management of change.
4. Demonstrate understanding of system and organizational change in education, including models for school change and current research and trends in school change.

Leadership and Change Agent Goal: Master teachers apply educational research, including research on school reform and professional development to raise student achievement.

1. Demonstrate responsibility for student learning at high levels.
2. Demonstrate responsibility for school reform and leadership in school change.

Tuition: 

As a public and non-profit university, CSU Pueblo partners with you to make your education affordable. CSU Pueblo offers one affordable tuition rate, regardless of residency. 

Master of Education Tuition Rate: $470 per credit hour

Scholarships:

Everyone deserves affordable education. That is why we offer a number of scholarships to help you achieve your education goals. 

https://www.csupueblo.edu/student-financial-services/scholarships/index.html

Financial Aid:

Financial Aid: https://www.csupueblo.edu/student-financial-services/index.html 

Learning can lead to earning. Discover where a Master of Education degree might take you and make informed choices about your future in education.

Diverse Industries:

• Education
• Adult Education
• Higher Education
• Educational Technology 
• ESL (English as a Second Language)

Job Titles:

• Principal
• Instructional Designer
• Education Consultant
• Curriculum Developer
• Teacher
• School Administrator

 Admission

Regular status will be given to degree-seeking students who meet all of the following requirements:

• A baccalaureate degree from an institution accredited by the regional accreditation agency (or equivalent).
• A minimum 3.000 cumulative  GPA. Conditional admission may be granted for candidates with cumulative GPAs lower than 2.500, but whose recent graduate GPA (at least 15 hours) is above 3.000
• A letter of interest that outlines the candidate’s reason(s) for applying to the M.Ed. program and how they expect to both benefit from and contribute to it.
• Two recommendations from Individuals who can speak to potential success in graduate school.
• Significant teaching experience. Candidates must provide documentation of the quantity and quality of this experience within their letter of interest.

Program Completion

All students must fulfill the following requirements for a graduate degree:

• A cumulative graduate GPA of 3.000 or better at graduation. A maximum of six semester hours of course work at the grade of C+ or C may be applied toward graduation. A maximum number of nine semester hours of transfer credit may be applied to the degree.
• Regular student status.
• The program’s minimum number of hours of approved course work (38 semester hours).
• Completion of a final portfolio review and oral examination. The portfolio project includes a directed research project.
• Submission of a graduation planning sheet signed by the student’s graduate advisor and program director, in accordance with published deadlines during the semester is to occur. The deadline for submission is published in the Semester Notes, University Calendar, and CSU Pueblo Catalog.

How to Apply

Applicants must complete the online application. The application requires official transcripts from all colleges which
the student has attended. Once the application and transcripts have been received, students will receive an admission
decision. Send official transcripts:

Electronically:
info@csupueblo.edu

By mail at Colorado State University Pueblo:
Office of Admissions
2200 Bonforte Boulevard
Pueblo, CO, 81001