Southern Connecticut State University

Size of Campus: 168 acres

Number of Students: 10,680 undergraduate and graduate students; more than 2,600 students living on campus

Number of Faculty: 439 full-time faculty, 84% of whom hold the doctorate or appropriate terminal degree in their field, and 593 part-time faculty members, many of whom are 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 degree programs ranging from Business to Secondary Education, Biology to Studio 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 and Nursing Education.

Geographic Diversity: 37 states represented: top five are Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts; 26 foreign countries represented, including Germany, China, South Korea, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Nigeria, and the United Kingdom

Graduate Student Budget:
• In-state tuition and fees per year: $1,219*
• In-state MBA tuition per year: $12,408*
• Out-of-state tuition and fees per year: $24,019*
• Out-of-state MBA tuition per year: $25,425*
• In/out-of-state Accelerated MBA program: $8,348 per semester*
• In-state EdD Educational Leadership: $562 per credit plus fees*
• Out-of-state EdD Educational Leadership: $579 per credit plus fees*
• In/out-of-state Part-time EdD Nursing Education: $752 per credit plus fees*

* Estimated expenses for the academic year, September through May 2016–2017; 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 catalogue to determine additional graduate program admission requirements.

Application Deadlines and Fees: Application fee is $50. Although the School of Graduate Studies has 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

• Art Education, CT teacher certification
• Bilingual Education/TESOL MS
• Biology MS, CT teacher certification
• Business Administration MBA, Accelerated MBA
• Chemistry MS, CT teacher certification
• Communication Disorders MS, CT teacher certification
• Computer Science MS
• Counseling MS, SYC, CT teacher certification
• Creative Writing MFA
• Educational Leadership SYC, EdD, CT teacher certification
• Elementary Education MS, CT teacher certification
• Elementary Education Classroom Specialist SYC
• English MS, MA, CT teacher certification
• Environmental Education MS
• Exercise Science MS, CT teacher certification
• History MS, MA, CT teacher certification
• Library & Information Science MLIS
• Marriage & Family Therapy MFT
• Mathematics MS, CT teacher certification
• Nursing MSN, EdD
• Physics, Applied MS
• Political Science MS
• Psychology MA
• Public Health MPH
• Reading MS, SYC, CT teacher certification
• Recreation & Leisure MS
• Romance Languages MA, CT teacher certification
• School Counseling MS, CT teacher certification
• School Health Education MS
• School Psychology MS, SYC, CT teacher certification
• Science Education MS, CT teacher certification
• Social Work MSW
• Sociology MS
• Special Education MS, SYC, CT teacher certification
• Sport & Entertainment Management MS (fully online)
• Women’s Studies MA, certificate