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The Masters in Agricultural and Life Sciences program provides broad, scientific-based courses for professionals in agriculture, life sciences, and related fields. Upon successful completion of the program requirements, students will earn a master of science in agricultural and life sciences.
This program is intended primarily for place-bound working professionals that would like to pursue an advanced degree but cannot commute to Blacksburg to take daily or weekly classes. The unique program provides professionals the flexibility to earn a master's degree with a focus on a career-relevant area of specialization from the convenience of their own home.
Students are required to take a set of core courses and must select an area of concentration.
Five concentration options build upon a required core curriculum:
- Biosecurity, Bioregulations, and Public Health
- Education
- Environmental Science
- Food Safety
- Plant Science and Pest Management
Award - Masters of Science
Major - Agricultural and Life Sciences
Contact Information:
Program Website:
http://www.online.cals.vt.edu/masters/
Dr. Doug Pfeiffer, Program
Director dgpfeiff@vt.edu
ph: 540-231-4183 fax:
540-231-9131
Career and Technical Education
The Master of Science (M.S.)
degree program offered via
distance learning is designed to
develop instructional leaders in
the field of Career and
Technical Education (CTE). The
program focuses on developing
expertise in contextual
learning, integration of CTE
with core academics,
philosophies regarding the role
of CTE in public education,
research application in the
classroom, diversity, and
instructional technology.
Delivery - Primarily interactive
videoconferencing. A few online
courses available.
Award - Master of Science
Major - Career and Technical
Education
Contact Information:
Program Website:
http://ctems.iddl.vt.edu
Dr. Bill Price, Jr., Program
Director wprice@vt.edu
ph: 540-231-7390 fax:
540-231-9075
Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
A Master of Arts in Education or
Educational Specialist program
was developed by Virginia Tech
in cooperation with school
divisions to prepare principals
and supervisors for leadership
in schools.
Contact information:
Program Website:
http://www.ELPS.vt.edu
Doctoral Program In Educational Leadership
Contact information:
Program Website:
http://www.elps.vt.edu/EDAD/default.html
The Commonwealth Graduate
Engineering Program (CGEP) is a
distance learning graduate
program of five universities in
the State of Virginia. The CGEP
offers qualified individuals the
opportunity to earn a master's
degree part time through on-site
and televised graduate classes.
Delivery - Interactive
videoconferencing
Award - Master of Science
Major:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Environmental Engineering and Sciences
- Transportation Infrastructure and Systems Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Systems Engineering
- Engineering Administration (Master of Science in Engineering Administration)
Contact information:
Program Website:
http://www.eng.vt.edu/cgep/
Dr. Glenda Rose Scales,
Director cgepvt@vt.edu
ph: 540-231-9754 fax:
540-231-2106
The Graduate Program in Information technology is a combined degree and certificate program offered collaboratively by Virginia Tech's College of Engineering, and Pamplin College of Business. The program is an innovative blend of coursework in four related IT modules: networking, software development, business information systems and decision support systems. Virginia Tech's IT faculty have real world experience combined with cutting edge knowledge of industry trends. Each module is updated regularly to reflect industry trends.
Delivery - Completely online.
Synchronous components.
Award - Master of Information
Technology degree (30 credits)
or Certificate only (12 credits)
Major - Software Development -
Networking - Business
Information Systems - Decision
Support Systems (Three of these
are required for a degree)
Contact information:
Program Website:
http://vtmit.iddl.vt.edu
Cindy Rubens, VTMIT Advisor vtmitinfo@vt.edu
ph: 703-538-8384
The Instructional Technology
(IT) Master's Degree program
offered through the Department
of Learning Sciences and
Technologies at Virginia Tech is
designed to meet the needs of
professional educators in K-12
schools, community colleges, and
higher education, as well as
corporate trainers and other
instructional development
professionals outside of the
academic realm. The focus of the
program is on the creation of
effective solutions to support
learning and improved
performance. Individual
professional experiences are
highly valued and will form the
basis for most of the projects
developed throughout the
program. Because this is a
distance program, all courses
are offered electronically via
the World Wide Web. Depending on
the nature of the course,
supporting instructional content
may consist of Web-based
tutorials, textbooks, CDs, or
other appropriate materials.
The Instructional Technology
Master's program (ITMA) is a
rigorous graduate program
designed to prepare you to be a
professional instructional
technologist. As a graduate of
the Virginia Tech Instructional
Technology Program, you will
enjoy the respect and
opportunities afforded by
completing one of the finest
Instructional Technology
programs in the country.
Delivery - Completely online,
asynchronous
Award - Master of Arts
Major - Curriculum & Instruction
(Instructional Technology
emphasis)
Contact information:
Program Website:
http://www.itma.vt.edu
ITMA Staff:
itma@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-9658
The College of Natural Resources
offers a professional,
non-thesis Master of Natural
Resources (MNR) degree. The MNR
program is a 33-credit-hour
professional degree open to
students from a wide variety of
undergraduate fields. The focus
of the Natural Resources Program
in Northern Virginia is urban
ecology and sustainability of
natural resources, with special
emphasis on sustainable use of
fishery, wildlife and forest
resources in the rapidly
changing rural-urban
environment. The MNR degrees is
usually a terminal, non-research
degree, intended to give the
candidate additional
post-baccalaureate education in
natural resources. This
interdisciplinary program has a
dual objective of training
graduates for professional
employment in natural resources
and instilling conceptual and
critical thinking necessary for
lifelong learning and career
development. Graduates are able
to assume professional
responsibilities in a wide
variety of positions in public
service or in the private
sector.
Delivery - Completely online,
asynchronous
Award - Master of Natural
Resources
Major - Natural Resources
Contact information:
Program Website:
http://natrespro.nvgc.vt.edu/
Dr. David Trauger, Program
Director dtrauger@vt.edu
ph: 703-538-3762 fax:
703-538-8337
In Spring 2006, Virginia Tech (VT) became the first in the US to offer an Integrative STEM Education graduate program. These new graduate degree options develop 21st century K-16 STEM educators, leaders, scholars, and researchers prepared to investigate, teach, and disseminate new integrative approaches to STEM teaching and learning. Our focus on the investigation and application of new integrative approaches to STEM education uniquely sets us apart from other STEM programs. Integrative STEM Education is wholly consistent with, and is an exemplar of, the recommendations of the seminal STEM education reform publications of the past two decades, including Science for All Americans, Benchmarks for Science Literacy, Principles and Standards for School Mathematics, National Science Education Standards, Standards for Technological Literacy, and Educating the Engineer of 2020.
To be awarded the “Integrative STEM Education Graduate Certificate” students must successfully complete 12 semester hours of coursework offered by the Integrative STEM Education Program at Virginia Tech as follows: Complete the following two Integrative STEM Education courses: EDCI 5804: STEM Education Foundations (3 SH) EDCI 5814: STEM Education Pedagogy (3 SH) And two of the following 3-semester hour Integrative STEM Education courses: EDCI 5824: STEM Education Trends and Issues (3 SH) EDCI 5834: STEM Education Research (3 SH) EDCI 5854: Biotechnology Literacy by Design (3 SH) EDCI 5964: Field Study in [Integrative STEM] Education (3 SH)
Delivery - Completely online,
asynchronous
Award - Integrative STEM
Education Graduate Certificate
Master of Education (MAEd)
Education Specialist (EdS)
Contact information:
Program Website:
http://teched.vt.edu/TE/STEM.html
Mark Sanders, Program Director
ph: 866 / 791-4898 fax:
540 / 231-2079
The Online Masters of Arts in
Political Science is identical
in course content, requirement,
and work load to the widely
respected and high-quality
residential MA degree program
that has been offered in
Blacksburg since 1969. The M.A.
degree program features a broad
array of methodologically
sophisticated, theoretically
grounded, and empirically
oriented graduate courses to new
audiences anywhere in the world.
Delivery - Completely online and
asynchronous
Award - Master of Arts
Major - Political Science
Contact information:
Program Website:
http://www.olma.vt.edu
Graduate Coordinator pscigrad@vt.edu
fax: 540-231-6078
