Introduction to Comparative and Global Studies in Education

The Graduate School of Education has several programs, centers, institutes, and scholarly initiatives for students and visiting scholars wishing to study education in its international, comparative, and global contexts. The most internationally and comparatively focused are the General Masters and the Ph.D. in the Social Foundations of Education with concentrations in Comparative and Global Studies in Education. These programs are housed within Department of Educational Leadership and Policy. The Department also offers a General Masters as well as the Ph.D. and the Ed.D. in Educational Administration, and the Ph.D. in Higher Education, as well as the masters and Ph.D. in Social Foundations with concentrations in the Sociology or History of Education. Many of the international students - or US students with international interests - take these degree programs, but buttressed with courses from the international/comparative/global program.

The Departments of Learning and Instruction (LAI) and of Counseling, School and Educational Psychology (CEP) also offer masters and doctorates that can be tailored to international students who wish to combine more specialized graduate studies (say, in language or science instruction, or early childhood education) with some international comparative and global course work or comparative independent study, sometimes leading to a dissertation that is "comparative" or "global" in scope. Finally, there is the internationally-recognized Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL) program, housed in the Department of Learning and Instruction, whose students can take courses with students in the Comparative and Global Studies in Education program.