Overview

Adult Education at St. Francis Xavier University (StFX) will enable you to become a dual professional, incorporating adult education theory, practices, and principles into your work, making learning more effective and efficient, helping you and those you work with make change and adapt to change. 

Careers

Our participants are employed in health care, industry, sports and recreation, post-secondary, college, and vocational education, unions and labour organizations, in community organizations and non-profits, policing and the military, and in the field of international development.

Program at a glance

This 30-credit Master of Adult Education program offers two options of study: 

• a course-based option (ten 3-credit courses) 
• a thesis-based option (six 3-credit courses plus a 12-credit thesis). Students planning to pursue further studies should consider the thesis-based option. 

Students have a three-year candidacy period within which to complete all program requirements. 

There is no residency requirement in this program.