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All aspects of the MSED Curriculum and Instruction degree - including ESL and Reading certifications/endorsements - are entirely online.
Students may begin the M.S. Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction in the Fall, Spring or Summer semester. The department accepts applications to these graduate programs throughout the year for full-time or part-time graduate study. Although many of the students enrolled in these programs are full-time practicing teachers who have chosen to pursue a degree or certificate program as part-time graduate students, we do offer graduate assistantships to qualified candidates who wish to pursue full-time graduate study.
Students awarded graduate assistantships to support full-time graduate study usually begin in the Fall semester and complete the graduate assistant orientation program. It is rare for the department to have the ability to offer assistantships beginning in the Spring semester. However, if assistantships are available beginning in the Spring, applicants will be considered. Please contact the graduate coordinator to inquire about the availability of assistantship opportunities.
All students can apply to the graduate school through MyEIU. The graduate school requires:
Learn more about the Graduate School admissions process.
Once you’ve completed the Graduate School application in your MyEIU account, you will be notified to return to MyEIU to complete our program application. Requirements that you will need to complete the program application include:
For International Applicants:
Do you have a teaching license in your home country? You’ll need one to be fully admitted to the program. If you don’t have a teaching license, we can admit you as a post-baccalaureate international student but you would need a course-by-course evaluation of transcripts done by a professional evaluation companies. This must be done before we can evaluate your transcript to determine what coursework is needed for teacher licensure. Here is a link to the information on the evaluation companies: https://www.isbe.net/Documents/foreign-cred-eval-svcs.pdf. These companies offer different types of evaluations, so the student must be sure to request the course-by-course evaluation.
For any questions about the program application process, please contact:
Daniel J. Carter, Ph.D., Graduate Coordinator
Associate Professor
djcarter@eiu.edu
217-581-7885
You'll be able to keep tabs on the status of your application through MyEIU; you'll receive a message when you have been officially admitted to EIU!
If you are interested in a graduate assistantship, you also need to submit a graduate assistantship application.
Graduate assistantships are typically awarded in accordance with the academic year. Assistantship applications are normally accepted through the middle of February; a decision for the next academic year comes within a month. For more information about graduate assistantships, please click here.
Now you're ready for your first semester at Eastern! Welcome to the EIU family! We're glad to have you, and we're confident you'll be glad you came!
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