Master of Arts in Education
"Antioch opened the door of hope for me and helped me to hear my voice. "
--Orkideh Esfandiyari
"Antioch opened the door of hope for me and helped me to hear my voice. "
--Orkideh Esfandiyari
Unique Offering/Advantages
- Close, collaborative relationships among instructors and students
- Emphasis on social justice and cultural competence orientation
- Convenient late afternoon and evening classes, occasional Saturdays
- Ongoing incorporation of relevant field experiences and applications in all coursework
- Collaboration with diverse educators in the program and beyond campus
- Variety of possible elective area concentrations, including teaching endorsements
- Culminating master’s inquiry project individually designed by students, to contribute also to next stage of career development
- Program support for next steps in career development
General Requirements
- Completion of 48 total credits (up to 12 transfer credits possible)
- Four program core courses (16 total credits)
- Elective concentration selected or designed by student (20 total credits)
- Inquiry Sequence of courses leading to culminating Inquiry Project (12 credits)
Length of Program
- Six quarters (1 ½ years) full-time; two – three years part-time
Tuition & Fees
- Tuition: $590 per credit
- Required fees: $145 per quarter
- $4,865 tuition and required fees per quarter, full time (8 credits)
- $19,460 typical annual tuition and fees
Annual tuition and fees based on 2013-14 rates for four quarters. Antioch University Seattle students typically attend classes all year.
Career Opportunities
- Elementary, middle, or high School Teacher, public or independent school
- Adult educator, in postsecondary institution or alternative setting
- Academic advisor
- Informal educator, in non-school settings such as non-profit organization, arts or cultural institution
- Community educator
- International teacher, in school or program
- Trainer/training specialist, in company or organization
- Online educator
- Educational outreach specialist
- Educational program developer
- Online education developer
- Educational program coordinator
- Educational program specialist
- Educational research specialist
- Educational policy specialist
- Educational advocate
- Educational consultant
Program Summary
The skills, knowledge, and talents you bring to your graduate work are key to this program's curriculum, designed with experienced educators in mind.
You join others with backgrounds in early childhood and K-12 education, adult and higher education, student services, community college instruction, English as a second language, training design, public service education, and community education in ecology, health, and the arts.
Self-designed Option at Seattle Campus
On campus, you have the flexibility of full or part-time study. Full-time students typically complete the 48-credit program in six quarters or fewer. Courses meet late afternoons, evenings and occasional Saturdays to accommodate the needs of working adults. You work with your adviser to build your program around your professional interests and these core knowledge areas:
- Leadership and change
- Diversity and equity
- Curriculum studies and reflective practice
- Inquiry and research
You also can take graduate-level courses from Antioch University Seattle's other academic centers and prepare for add-on endorsements.
Off-campus Sites Provide Other Options
Sites within K-12 school districts offer another program option. You have the support of a cohort of about 20 fellow educators in this program, which meets at a school in your district. Sites have included Marysville, Stanwood, Tacoma, and the First Peoples' Education program at the Muckleshoot Tribal College in Auburn. This full-time, site-based program also has a 48-credit curriculum and can be completed in five quarters. You still also have flexibility to design components of your program.
Numerous Career Paths Open to You
With your newly expanded knowledge base and professional experience, you can promote and lead efforts for change in schools, districts, colleges, businesses, and communities. While some graduates choose administrative careers, many receive local, statewide, and national recognition for designing new educational models and approaches as well as for creating programs that address social equity and justice.
Self-Designed Option at Seattle Campus
This flexible 48-hour offering may be completed full-time or part-time. Courses meet late afternoons, evenings, and occasional Saturdays. You build your program around your professional interests and the core knowledge areas below.
Core Knowledge Areas
Build your program from four interdisciplinary areas:
- Diversity and equity
- Curriculum studies and reflective practices
- Leadership and reform
- Inquiry and research
Concentration
You design an area of concentration combining courses, independent studies, and collaborative projects.
Concentration options include Adult Education, Global Education, First Peoples' Education, and K-12 Teaching Endorsement areas: Library Media, Special Education, Environmental and Sustainability Education, and Literacy.
The Inquiry Project
You conclude your master's degree by delving into literature and research either individually or collaboratively. You decide your topic of inquiry in consultation with your faculty advisor. Your final product may be a major original analysis of your research topic or an alternative professional product, such as a curriculum unit, a grant proposal, a website or online instructional site, a public forum or educational training, an assessment protocol, or policy statement, or white paper essay.
Abigail Chandler
MA Education, 1999
Chandler was drawn to AUS for the university’s flexibility and convenience. She was working full time and starting a family so entering a local program was important to her.
Andrea Allen
M.A. Education, 2002
She chose Antioch because it allowed her to choose her own path and create learning experiences that were relevant to her as an educator and arts administrator at the Seattle Repertory Theatre.
Dawn Stremel
MA Education, MA Psychology, Couple and Family Therapy, 1988, 2007
After she completed her MAEd at Antioch, she says she enjoyed more than 20 years as an educational leader and passionate champion for creative change in the schools. Then she returned to Antioch so she could craft a meaningful new retirement career.
Drew Larson
M.A. Education with Teacher Preparation, 2007
It was the availability of programs and the Belltown location that brought Drew Larson to Antioch Seattle. Within a month of his graduation, Larson had a job offer in the Highline School District.
Ernie Seevers
M.A Education - Principal Preparation, 2001
As an Antioch student, he was able to work on an action research project that created a new vision and a values-based, five-year plan for the school where he taught.
Franchesska Berry
MA Education, 2008
This Fulbright Scholar took her multicultural education program to Egypt in January 2009. The world has become the stage for this performer, choreographer and cultural arts instructor.
Helen Maynard
M.A. Education, 2001
Unlike other graduate programs in Seattle, she says, Antioch University Seattle's M.A. Education program allowed her opportunities to design a degree specific to her professional goals.
Jamie Daniels
MA Education with Library Media, 2010
Jamie Daniels received a job offer from the Bethel School District even before she completed her coursework. This reputation for excellence is built on both the MA in Education with Library Media program’s academic rigor and its advocacy of school libraries as a basic element of education.
Jon Rogers
M.A. Education with Teacher Preparation, 2006
Now a teacher at Denny Middle School in West Seattle, he believes in Antioch's message of social justice in our global village. He says his education was instrumental to his professional development as an educator.
Linda Thompson
M.A. Education, 2000
She believes an educator has to be a learner and Antioch gave back her love of learning.
Lynn Ronald
M.A. Education, 2003
Antioch University Seattle's 2008 Distinguished Alumna says she believes "an idea is only impossible until someone proves it isn't." This special education teacher credits her experience at Antioch University Seattle for her success as a teacher.
Michael Bruesch
M.A. Education with Teacher Preparation, 2007
He saw Antioch as a place for change and progressive thinking and says he chose the University for its commitment to urban education, school reform and multiculturalism.
Sharyn Merrigan
Library Media Endorsement, 2009
Sharyn Merrigan is the teacher librarian at Thurgood Marshall Middle School in Olympia, Washington. Beyond the busy library at her school Sharyn is involved in many roles of leadership; she
- conducts staff development in instructional technology and information literacy
- trained as ESD113 Teacher-Librarian Technology Peer Coach
- serves on the district Common Core State Standards ELA leadership team, and the
- Washington State Library K12 Library Initiative committee
Sharyn now serves as Vice-President of the Washington Library Media Association (WLMA) and is assuming the role of WLMA President-elect in 2014.
Sylvia Brown
B.A. (with teacher preparation), M.A. Education, 2007
Sylvia Brown was tutoring math and reading in an elementary school, when the school principal and reading coach she worked with recommended she check out Antioch. Today, she is employed in the position she said she waited for her whole life.
Terry McCarthy
M.A. Education with Library Media, 2007
Before accepting a position as the new lead librarian at American Community Schools in Athens, Greece, a member of the first cohort from Antioch Library Endorsement program, Terry McCarthy, was the quintessential model for leadership, collaboration, and multicultural responsiveness in the four years spent in her Tacoma School District library position.
