Course Requirements • Program Delivery • Admissions
The Department of Leadership and Educational
Studies offers the Master of School Administration (MSA)
degree. The MSA degree is intended to prepare potential
educational leaders for entry-level positions in school
administration, especially the positions of assistant principal
and principal.
Through the Office of Extension and Distance
Education, the Reich College of Education provides this
degree program at selected off-campus settings throughout
western NC. (For a listing of locations of upcoming programs,
see Proposed
New Programs.
Off-Campus Program Delivery:
The courses required for the MSA degree will be delivered
to the designated off-campus site. Appalachian State University
faculty will teach each course; and, a combination of instructional
strategies and course delivery systems may be employed.
The modes of delivery may include: the instructor's being
present at the site; web-based instruction; and/or live
interactive two-way, audio-video sessions via the North
Carolina Information Highway (NCIH) network. Generally,
two courses will be provided each term. Face-to-face courses
will be conducted either during the evenings (e.g., 5:00-7:45
pm one evening a week for 15 weeks) or on weekends (e.g,
Friday evenings and Saturday mornings). The program will
be cohort-based, meaning the group of identified students
who enter this program will begin together and continue
together through the specified sequence of required courses
leading to the degree. The courses in each cohort will
be offered only once, so a student must be prepared to
take the courses as they are made available.
Requirements for Admission:
In order to be considered for admission to this program
an individual must possess a bachelor's degree from an
accredited college or university, hold a NC "A" teaching
license (or the equivalent from another state) and must have
three years of public school teaching experience or equivalent
experience in other settings. In addition to the application
form, applicants must present Graduate Record Exam (GRE)
scores or Miller Analogies Test (MAT) scores and three
letters of recommendation. A candidate will be selected
based upon the strength of her/his undergraduate career,
GRE or MAT test scores, endorsements expressed in the letters
of recommendation, as well as the writing sample and interview
requested of the candidate.
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