Size of Campus: 168 acres
Number of Students: 10,050 undergraduate and graduate students; more than 2,600 students living on campus
Number of Faculty: 439 full-time faculty, 84% holding the doctorate or appropriate terminal degree in their field, and 593 part-time faculty members, many practitioners in their fields
Colleges, Programs, and Degrees: The School of Graduate Studies works with Southern’s Schools of Arts and Sciences, Business, Education, and Health and Human Services to offer more than 55 graduate programs ranging from Business to Secondary Education, Biology to Art, and Communication Disorders to History. Master’s degrees are awarded as well as graduate certificates, sixth-year professional diplomas, and doctoral degrees in Educational Leadership, Nursing Education, and Social Work.
Geographic Diversity: 37 states represented—the top five are Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts; 26 foreign countries represented, including Canada, China, Germany, Nigeria, Norway, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, and the United Kingdom
Graduate Student Budget:
• In-state tuition and fees per year: $12,744*
• Out-of-state tuition and fees per year: $25,532*
• In-state MBA tuition per year: $14,118*
• Out-of-state MBA tuition per year: $26,736*
• MLIS and MS in Sport and Entertainment Management programs: $14,118 per year*
• EdD in Educational Leadership: $637 per credit plus fees*
• Part-time EdD in Nursing Education: $848 per credit plus fees*
* Estimated expenses for the academic year, September 2019 through May 2020; additional costs may be incurred, including housing, books, supplies, medical insurance, and personal expenses for students living year-round in the New Haven area.
Admission Requirements:
• Degree from an institution accredited by a recognized regional accrediting agency in the United States; if you are pursuing a master’s degree, a bachelor’s degree is required. For a sixth-year certificate, a master’s degree is required.
• Appropriate academic background in or for the program in which graduate study will be done
• Recommendation of the graduate program coordinator: specific graduate programs may have higher admission standards and/or require scores on standardized examinations such as the GRE (Graduate Record Examination) or GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Test) as well as letters of recommendation. Read the program section of the graduate catalog to determine additional graduate program admission requirements.
Application Deadlines and Fees: The application fee is $50. Although many of our graduate programs have a rolling admission process, a number of departments have established application deadlines. Applicants are urged to submit the completed application and credentials well in advance of the semester for which they seek admission.
Graduate Programs
• Applied Physics MS
• Applied Statistics graduate certificate
• Bilingual/Education MAT, MS
• Biology MAT, MS
• Business Administration (traditional and accelerated options)
• Chemistry MAT, MS, BS/MS Accelerated Pathway
• Classroom Teacher Specialist SYC
• Clinical Mental Health Counseling MS, post-master’s certificate
• Communication Disorders MS
• Computer Science MS, BS/MS Accelerated Pathway
• Creative Writing MFA
• Early Childhood EducationMAT
• Earth Science 7-12 MAT
• Education MS
• Educational Leadership EdD, SYC
• Elementary Education 1-6 MAT
• English MA, MAT, MS
• Environmental Education MS
• Exercise Science—Human Performance MS
• History MA, BS/MS Accelerated Pathway, graduate certificate
• Information and Library Science MLIS, graduate certificate
• Marriage and Family Therapy MFT
• Nanotechnology graduate certificate
• Nursing MSN, post-master’s certificate
• Nursing Education EdD
• Physics 7-12 MAT
• Political Science MS
• Psychology MA, BS/MA Accelerated Pathway
• Public Health MPH
• Reading MS, SYC, post-master’s certificate
• Recreation and Leisure Studies MS, BS/MS Accelerated Pathway
• Romance Languages MA
• School Counseling MS, SYC, post-master’s certificate
• School Health Education MS
• School Psychology MS, SYC
• Social Work DSW, MSW
• Sociology MS
• Special Education MAT, MS, SYC
• Sport and Entertainment Management MS, BS/MS Accelerated Pathway
• TESOL/Bilingual/Multicultural Education MS
• Women’s and Gender StudiesMA, graduate certificate
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