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

• 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.