Graduate Programs in Educational Psychology & Research (EDPR)

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1 Graduate Programs in Educational Psychology & Research (EDPR) Shaping the future of educational research, policy and practice.

2 Graduate Certificates Qualifying graduate students can further their credentials by receiving one of two highly specialized, graduate-level certificates: Qualitative Research Graduate Certificate and Quantitative Methods Graduate Certificate. For more information, please see a full listing of course requirements and application details online at memphis.edu/edpr For application deadlines and requirements for all of our programs, go to memphis.edu/edpr

3 The Master s Program The This research-oriented Master s Program program will give you the This advanced research-oriented educational skills program needed will give for careers you the in advanced schools, higher educational education, skills government, needed for careers industry in and schools, private consulting. higher education, In a highly government, intimate classroom industry and private setting, consulting. you will get In the a highly individualized intimate instruction classroom to setting, meet your you academic will get the aspirations individualized and career instruction goals, to meet including your unmatched academic aspirations curriculum and career participation goals, including colloquia, unmatched active research curriculum groups, and and participation annual in performance colloquia, active evaluations. research groups, and annual performance evaluations. If you are not close to Memphis, you can also If complete you are not a master s close to degree Memphis, with you a concentration can also complete in Educational a master s Psychology degree by with taking a concentration online courses. in There Educational is no distinction Psychology between by taking traditional online and courses. online There programs is no in distinction either transcripts between or traditional awarded degrees. and online programs Our courses in either are taught transcripts entirely or online awarded by University degrees. of Our Memphis courses faculty. are taught entirely online by University of Memphis faculty. The University of Memphis The University of Memphis memphis.edu/edpr memphis.edu/edpr facebook.com/uofmedpr facebook.com/uofmedpr

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4 The Doctoral Program The Our Ph.D. Doctoral program Program will prepare you to be a strong Our leader, Ph.D. launching program you will into prepare academic you to and be professional a strong leader, communities launching upon you graduation into academic with an and unmatched professional level communities of expertise and upon research graduation experience with an within unmatched your area level of of study. expertise Open and to both research full-time experience and part-time within students, your area our of study. rigorous Open program to both emphasizes full-time and research, part-time both students, individual our rigorous and group. program You will emphasizes work alongside research, your both advisor individual and and mentor, group. who You will will monitor work alongside your progress your in advisor achieving and mentor, your individualized who will monitor goals. Participation your progress in in research achieving your groups, individualized making presentations goals. Participation at national in research conferences, groups, and successfully making presentations publishing research at national will be conferences, important and components successfully of your publishing experience. research will be important components of your experience. For information on application requirements and For deadlines information all on our application programs, requirements go to memphis.edu/edpr. and deadlines for all our programs, go to memphis.edu/edpr.

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5 Where transformative leaders are Where developed transformative and supported leaders are developed When you choose and the supported UofM for your graduate degree When in EDPR, you you choose will be the collaborating UofM for your with graduate and learning degree in alongside EDPR, you gifted will faculty be collaborating members with who and will provide learning alongside personalized gifted mentoring, faculty members no matter who where will you provide plan to personalized take your career. mentoring, At the graduate no matter level, where we you offer: plan to take your career. At the graduate level, we offer: Master s of Science (M.S.) with two interrelated Master s concentrations of Science in Educational (M.S.) with Psychology two interrelated and concentrations Educational Research in Educational Psychology and Educational Research Doctoral Degree (Ph.D.) with two interrelated Doctoral concentrations Degree in Educational (Ph.D.) with Psychology two interrelated and concentrations Educational Research in Educational Psychology and Educational Research Certificates in Qualitative Research and Certificates Quantitative Methods in Qualitative Research and Quantitative Methods A powerful focus on intensive research A All powerful of our tenured focus faculty on intensive members are research active All researchers of our tenured in diverse faculty fields members and will are help active you tap researchers into your own in research diverse fields interests and within will help your you chosen tap into concentration, your own research even helping interests to unlock within grants your chosen and concentration, other funding sources even helping to support to unlock your grants research. and other funding sources to support your research. The Concentration in Educational Psychology The allows Concentration you to examine Educational human development Psychology at all allows life stages you and to examine explore the human cultural development nature of these at all life developmental stages and explore processes the in cultural our changing nature of society. these developmental You can also focus processes on learning/cognition our changing and society. You motivation can also and focus delve on deeply learning/cognition into theories and within. motivation and delve deeply into theories within. The Concentration in Educational Research offers The choices Concentration in quantitative in Educational approaches, Research including offers choices measurement, in quantitative statistical approaches, methods, research including design, measurement, and institutional statistical research. methods, Or you can research focus on design, and qualitative institutional approaches research. using Or contemporary you can focus theories on qualitative and strategies. approaches using contemporary theories and strategies.

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6 Graduate Programs in Educational Psychology & Research (EDPR) memphis.edu/edpr facebook.com/uofmedpr The University of Memphis, a Tennessee Board of Regents institution, is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action University. It is committed to education of a non-racially identifiable student body. UOM186-FY1516/5M

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