Special Education :

Graduates of this program will be prepared for the careers listed below. All opportunities may not be listed. 

Federal regulations require the University of Cincinnati to publicly disclose whether completion of certain programs that lead or may lead to professional licensure or certification would meet a given state’s educational requirements for a specific professional license or certification required for employment in an occupation (regardless of whether the program is on-ground, online, or hybrid).  To learn whether a University program meets a given state’s educational requirements, please visit the University of Cincinnati State Authorization webpage.

All academic advising is conducted by program representatives who work with each individual student to develop an appropriate academic plan according to the student’s interests. Students have the option to complete this program in a part-time or full-time format.

Our Master of Arts in Teaching in Special Education program pairs with the following graduate certificates and/or endorsements:

• PreK-12 Reading Instruction Endorsement
• Autism Spectrum Disorders Graduate Certificate
• Special Education Leadership Graduate Certificate
• Transition to Work Endorsement

All students must complete a separate admission application and complete all necessary coursework to have the certificate or endorsement added to their official transcript.

Before a candidate can graduate, he or she must meet the following requirements:

• Be registered for at least one credit in their program in the academic year, after having met minimum degree course requirements to be considered a graduate candidate throughout the academic year.
• Posting of satisfactory grades for the term of graduation.
• Satisfactory completion of all applicable college and program requirements is provided by the major advisor filling out the Checklist for Completion of College/Departmental Requirements for Graduation and sending it to the Graduate College.
• Complete the EdTPA assessment.

On a case-by-case basis, a student may petition to have graduate credit from an accredited college or university counted as the equivalent of another course in the curriculum and accepted as transfer credit. In such cases, a student will have to supply a course syllabus to ensure that the content in the course taken at another university is equivalent to the content of the course in the MAT curriculum. A course with a similar name or the same name as a course offered at the University of Cincinnati does not necessarily mean that the content of the course is similar enough to accept it as transfer credit to our program.

Students may transfer up to 9 hours of graduate credit in Education courses from an accredited college or university. Graduate courses outside of education will not be accepted. Courses taken outside an accredited college or university—such as non-credit professional development—will not be accepted. Only courses with grades of B or higher will be considered for transfer. No credit is given for previous work history. Courses taken more than 7 years prior to a student’s entrance into the program will not be accepted as transfer credit.