13 Master's degrees offered by the university

With the Elementary Education degree at Rhode Island College, you could be eligible for certification in one year. In our program, you will learn educational theories and become skilled in best practices, guided by our expert faculty and enhanced by real-life classroom experiences.

The Reading and Dyslexia Endorsement program at Rhode Island College consists of three continuing education courses which offer educators required to exhibit proficiency in the Science of Reading and Structured Literacy a rigorous training, including a classroom application component.

In the Health Education program at Rhode Island College, you will learn how to design, implement and evaluate health education and promotion initiatives; address local, state, national and global health needs; and support healthy outcomes, with emphasis on health equity.

The Special Education - Early Childhood Special Education program at Rhode Island College leads to licensure in early childhood special education. If you are a practicing early childhood teacher or teacher candidate, you are eligible to apply.

The Special Education - Exceptional Learning Needs program at Rhode Island College is led by faculty with significant expertise in the field and courses are aligned with the advanced Council for Exceptional Children’s standards.

The World Languages Education program at Rhode Island College will teach you to prepare all students to become multilingual and multiliterate and ready for full participation in the world.

The Art Education program at Rhode Island College will prepare you for a teaching career in art education.

The Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages program at Rhode Island College prepares certified teachers and teacher candidates to work with emergent bilinguals of all ages in both ESOL classrooms and bilingual dual language classrooms.

If you are certified to teach early childhood, elementary or secondary education or can demonstrate concurrent enrollment in one of these teacher preparation programs, you are eligible to enroll in the Special Education - Severe Intellectual Disabilities program at Rhode Island College.

At Rhode Island College, they offer degrees in both the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) and the Master of Music Education (MMEd). Both majors take courses in K-12 teaching methods; assessment; classroom research; and the history, philosophy and psychology of music education.

The Special Education - Elementary or Secondary Special Education program at Rhode Island College results in licensure as an elementary (grades 1-6) or secondary (grades 7-12) special education teacher.

The Special Education - Urban Multicultural Special Education program at Rhode Island College is one of the few well-established programs in the nation that focuses on preparing special education teachers to work with multilingual learners.

The School Psychology program at Rhode Island College allows you to earn an M.A. in counseling and a C.A.G.S. in school psychology within three years.