Program Sequence and Length
All programs, with the exception of Jump Start, are individualized and students may proceed at their own pace.
Masters-level candidates have up to five years from the date of matriculation to complete their programs. A time extension, typically of one-to-two years, may be granted at the discretion of the Associate Dean for Graduate Programs. In such cases, additional Education courses may be required to update the student's program, as determined by the relevant department of the School of Education. Students will also have to meet any and all new or revised certification requirements imposed by NYSED.
Student or supervised teaching is a culminating experience, only undertaken when all coursework and all other requirements have been completed.
Doctoral candidates will take no more than three years to complete required coursework. Doctoral students can stay in the program for six years. Under exceptional circumstances and with approval from the Program Coordinator, doctoral students can stay a maximum of eight (8) years after they are officially admitted.
After successful defense of their dissertation proposals, all doctoral candidates are required to register for 2 credits of dissertation supervision every semester including summer, until they complete the program.
Additional Requirements for the Jump Start program
Before graduation and regular certification, Jump Start candidates must have completed all Masters degree and NYS certification requirements. Candidates who have not completed said requirements and are teaching under the internship certificate after they would normally have graduated and become certified are required to be mentored by the college and must pay a mentorship fee equivalent to one-credit of tuition. if they have not been mentored in the current academic year.
Jump Start students who do not or cannot complete their teaching placements or do not find a position will be required to join a traditional Masters program and follow the coursework and student teaching schedule, and meet the pre-requisites for student teaching, appropriate for that program. Such students must meet with the Office of Field Placement as soon as possible in their program.