Career and Technical Education, Master of Education

Graduate Admission Information

• The NAU graduate online application is required for all programs. Admission to many graduate programs is on a competitive basis, and programs may have higher standards than those established by the Graduate College.
  
  Admission requirements include the following:

  • Transcripts.
  • Undergraduate degree from a regionally accredited institution with a 3.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale ("A" = 4.0), or the equivalent.

  
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  International applicants have additional admission requirements. Please see the International Graduate Admissions Policy.

Additional Admission Requirements

• Individual program admission requirements over and above admission to NAU are required.

• • Responses to specific essay questions

Master's Requirements

• This Master’s degree requires 30 units distributed as follows:

  • Career and Technical Education Course Requirements: 15 units
  • Select a Concentration with your faculty advisor, which includes a thesis or coursework option: 15 units
    • Concentration Electives: 9 units
    • Thesis or Coursework option: 6 units

  
  Take the following 30 units:
  
  Career and Technical Education Course Requirements (15 units)

  • CTE 591, CTE 691, CTE 692, CTE 696 (12 units)
  • Select one course from: EDF 670, EDF 671, EDF 672, EDF 677 (3 units)
  • A concentration, from either CTE courses or advisor approved interdisciplinary courses that comprise a coherent area of study which may include 3 units of EPS courses and up to 6 units of CTE 699, for the research, writing, and oral defense of an approved thesis (15 units)
  
  Concentration (15 units)
  • Select a Concentration with your faculty advisor which includes a thesis or coursework option (15 units).
    • Concentration Electives: 9 units
    • Thesis or Coursework option: 6 units

• • Areas from which you may select a concentration include but aren't restricted to curriculum and instruction, higher education, educational technology, human resource development, and CTE Administration. Note that a concentration in CTE Administration does not lead to any type of administration certification. Consult with your plan advisor for the courses suggested in these areas of concentration.
    
    If you choose the thesis plan, you can only count 6 units of thesis credit toward your degree. However, you may end up taking more units because you must enroll for CTE 699 each term while you are working on your thesis.
    
    If you choose the extended coursework plan rather than the thesis plan, you must pass a final oral exam administered by the faculty, in addition to the coursework listed here. The exit oral exam covers content in the four core CTE courses (CTE 591, CTE 691, CTE 692, and CTE 696).
    
    We offer courses for this plan via web-based delivery only. There are no other delivery methods for this program.

Additional Information

• Be aware that some courses may have prerequisites that you must also successfully complete. For prerequisite information, click on the course or see your advisor.

• This program is available as an Accelerated Undergraduate/Graduate Plan wherein a student may start a master's degree while simultaneously completing their bachelor's degree.