Master’s in Education

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A debilitating pandemic. The push to confront racial injustice. Deepening systemic inequities. These developments haven’t just shaken the world; they’ve also made a fundamental impact on learners everywhere. The case for transformative education has never been stronger. 

The residential Master’s in Education (Ed.M.) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education prepares educators and aspiring educators like you with the skills you need to change the world through education. With our world-class faculty as your mentors, seasoned leaders and practitioners as your colleagues and lifelong network, and a community that encompasses frontier-pushing research and a deep commitment to social justice, our program will help you establish a long-term, impactful career in education.

An Immersive Experience

Our on-campus master’s degree is a one-year, full-time, immersive Harvard experience that offers five distinct programs, spanning education leadership and entrepreneurship, education policy, human development, teaching and teacher leadership, and learning design and technology. You’ll apply directly to one of those five Programs, but our residential Ed.M. curriculum has two other key pillars — Foundations and Concentrations. Together, our Programs, Foundations, and Concentrations — as well as a rich assortment of electives and co-curricular experiences — will prepare you to create transformative learning at every level and in every role, from teacher to district leader, policymaker to entrepreneur, learning designer to nonprofit leader.

Whether you focus on early childhood education, K–12, or higher education, and whether domestically or globally, our master’s curriculum provides you with an opportunity to design your own pathway by crafting a customized set of enriching experiences that allow you to tap your leadership potential, cultivate your ability to foster positive impact, and create the conditions for meaningful learning and development. Along the way, you’ll develop new skills, deepen your knowledge, and create opportunities for real-world engagement and lifelong professional and personal networks.

Foundations

At HGSE, you’ll launch your master’s program with Foundations courses — distinctive learning immersions that will prepare you to understand, evaluate, and address the wide range of challenges and rapidly changing circumstances facing students, families, and communities. Our Foundations will give you the core skills, knowledge, and ways of thinking that are central to the profession of education. You’ll apply that foundational knowledge to complex education issues and real-world scenarios — and you’ll draw on that knowledge over the rest of your HGSE coursework and throughout your career. Leveraging the expertise of our faculty and novel instructional approaches and tools, our four Foundations make essential knowledge accessible, relevant, and actionable. 

You’ll commence your HGSE master’s experience with How People Learn, an immersive online course that runs June–July and requires a time commitment of 10-15 hours per week. You’ll take Leading Change, Evidence, and Equity and Opportunity on campus in August and one additional Equity and Opportunity elective during the year. The four HGSE Foundations areas are:

• How People Learn
• Leading Change
• Evidence
• Equity and Opportunity