Master of Education in Educational Studies

The Educational Studies program offers graduate students in the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education an option for academically rigorous interdisciplinary learning, pragmatically designed to suit their own individual gifts, backgrounds, and goals as educators. Distinctively grounded in arts, humanities, and social sciences, the Educational Studies program prepares students to interpret, criticize, and construct educational ideas and arguments. This preparation examines the history of educational thought, institutions, and policies in their cultural and philosophical contexts, all critically grounded in social justice, whether your community or education is locally or globally.
Educational Studies is the perfect space for students, practitioners, and community members interested in in-depth and transformative conversations on schools/schooling, contemporary issues affecting our communities, as well the history of intellectual thought. Our students are engaging in conversations about education's problems and possibilities and our own roles in society. Similarly, some Educational Studies students are experienced and concerned professional educators who think both critically and imaginatively not just about methods and techniques, but also especially about the purposes, meanings, and values of their work. These educators are interested in understanding their own positionalities and in engaging in transformative work within their schools. While other Educational Studies are interested in careers in non-profit organizations or government agencies where knowledge supported by course work grounded in the history, sociology, and philosophy of education will best prepare them. In any of these cases, Educational Studies may be well suited to develop your own insights and capacities for intellectual and leadership in education and your local community. Faculty in OU's Educational Studies program are also uniquely grounded in interdisciplinary fields such as Latina/o/x Studies, African American/Black Studies, Indigenous Studies, and Queer and Gender Studies. Our students benefit a great deal from engaging in scholarship and conversations within these traditions.
Career Possibilities
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Most Educational Studies graduate students work professionally as teachers, professors, community educators, and educational administratorsand engage in scholarly self-examination of such workwhile pursuing the M.Ed. A monthly colloquium brings Educational Studies graduate students and faculty together informally for discussion of challenging issues and readings as a professional community of learning and inquiry led by students or invited speakers. Graduate students in Educational Studies practice statewide stewardship of the field and participate in professional development activities.

A complete Ed.D. application consists of the following materials. You will be asked to provide official transcripts and remit an application fee in addition to providing the following required documents during the application process. All application materials are submitted electronically at ou.edu/content/admissions/graduate.html

Graduate transcripts
Evidence of teacher effectiveness. This may be demonstrated by copies of yearly evaluation forms, awards and/or recognition for administration/leadership or comparable information.
Evidence of administrator/leader effectiveness. This may be demonstrated by copies of yearly evaluation forms, awards and/or recognition for administration/leadership or comparable information.
Evidence of (or potential for) state/regional influence. This may be demonstrated by presentations at state/regional conferences, committee member involvement (professional service) for a state/regional, state/regional professional association membership, etc.
Evidence of (or potential for) national influence. This may be demonstrated by presentations at national conferences, committee member involvement (professional service) for a national association, national professional association membership, etc.
Evidence of effective written communication skills in administrative writing sample. One (1) administrative writing sample authored by the applicant - i.e., school improvement plan, collection of official correspondence to parents/community related to school matters, policy implementation documents, professional development plan, funding proposal/grant application narrative, etc.
Three Recommendation letters provided by people who are familiar with your academic and/or professional qualifications.

TOEFL (iBT) - 79 or higher, Minimum sub- scores required 20
IELTS - 6.5 or higher, Minimum sub scores required 6.0