Oct 03, 2024  
2024-2025 Rowan University Academic Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Rowan University Academic Catalog

Master of Arts in STEM Education


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The need for teachers in high-need disciplines continues to grow. This program addresses these needs by selecting exceptionally able college seniors and career changers with science, technology, engineering, or mathematics backgrounds from across the country and supporting them to develop successful careers as highly skilled math, science, and technology teachers.

The Master of Arts in STEM Education (M.A. STEM) offers the unique opportunity for students who have undergraduate degrees in the mathematics, engineering, or the sciences to pursue an initial New Jersey teaching certificate in mathematics and/or one of the sciences† and a master’s degree simultaneously. This program is carefully designed such that all coursework has a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) focus that provides the ideal pedagogical preparation for prospective Mathematics or Science teachers in the P-12 setting. This 13-month program includes an early field experience, face-to-face, online, and hybrid courses, and a year-long teacher residency. The culminating experience is a seminar in which students transition from teacher candidate to teacher by planning for leading their own classrooms.

Concentrations within the Master of Arts in STEM Education:

  • Mathematics
  • Science

Program Requirements


Total Required Credits for the Program: 33 s.h.


Foundation Courses

  • Students in this program are required to meet admission course requirements in either P-12 Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physical Science, Earth Science, or Physics NJ state certification subject areas. Please consult Academic Advisor for information.
  • One psychology-based course in each of the following areas: Adolescent Development, Educational Psychology.
  • One course on either: Health and Wellness or Biology or Nutrition.

Graduation/Exit/Thesis Requirements

Exit Portfolio required.

Minimum Required Grades and Cumulative GPA

The Master of Arts in STEM Education is a Category 2 program.

For details regarding satisfactory academic progress and graduation requirements, please visit Academic Program Policy Categories  


Program Coordinator/Advisor Contact Information
Issam Abi-El-Mona
Herman D. James Hall
856.256.4500, ext.4736
abi-el-mona@rowan.edu

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