Graduate Programs

The following are graduate programs offered by the College of Education and Human Development at Western Michigan University. Graduate advisors are located in the departments.

Graduate Certificates

• Adapted Physical Education (APE) and Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports (PBIS)
• Counseling Psychology
• Early Childhood Special Education
• Educational and Instructional Technology
• English as a Second Language
• Evaluation
• Evidence-Based Reading Instruction and Intervention
• Global Leadership and Learning
• Higher Education and Student Affairs
• Kinship Care Families
• Mixed-Methods Research
• Organizational Change Leadership
• Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports
• Professional Workforce Educator
• Qualitative Research Methods
• School Counseling
• School Administrator: Central Office Endorsement
• Teacher Development
• Youth and Community Development

Master's degrees

• Counseling Psychology—M.A.
  • Accelerated 
• Counselor Education—M.A.
  • Clinical Mental Health Counseling
  • Marriage, Couple and Family Counseling
  • Rehabilitation Counseling (admission currently suspended)
  • School Counseling
• Early Childhood General and Special Education: Birth through Kindergarten—M.A.
• Educational Leadership—M.A.
  • Educational and Global Leadership
  • Higher Education and Student Affairs Leadership
  • K-12 Principal and Interscholastic Athletic Administration
  • K-12 School Principal Leadership
• Educational and Instructional Technology—M.A.
• Evaluation, Measurement and Research—M.A.
• Exercise Science—M.S.
  • Accelerated
• Family and Consumer Sciences—M.A.
  • Accelerated
  • Child Life
  • Family Life Education
  • Family Sciences and Services
  • Fashion Merchandising and Apparel Design
  • Youth and Community Development
     
• Literacy Studies—M.A.
• Nutrition and Dietetics—M.S.
• Organizational Change Leadership—M.A.
• Physical Education—M.A.
  • Pedagogy Concentration (admission currently suspended)
  • Adapted Physical Education Concentration
• Special Education—M.A.
  • Administration (admission currently suspended)
  • Clinical Teacher
  • Initial Teaching Certification
  • Master Teacher (behavior intervention specialist is offered only online)
• Sport Management—M.A.
• Sports Coaching—M.A.
• Teaching—M.A.
  • Elementary Education
  • Secondary Education
• Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages—M.A.
• Teaching, Learning and Educational Studies—M.A.
  • Curriculum and Instruction
  • Early Childhood Education
  • Educational Foundations
  • Teacher Leader 
• Workforce Education and Development—M.A.

Specialist in education

• Educational Leadership—Ed.S.

Doctoral degrees

• Counseling Psychology—Ph.D.
• Counselor Education—Ph.D.
• Education and Human Development—Ph.D.
• Educational Leadership—Ph.D.
  • Higher Education Leadership
     
  • K-12 Leadership
  • Organizational Analysis Leadership 
  • Workforce Education and Development (no longer accepting applications)
• Evaluation (Interdisciplinary)—Ph.D.
• Evaluation, Measurement and Research—Ph.D.
• Special Education—Ed.D.