Bachelor of Arts or Science in Mathematics to Master of Arts in Secondary Education / 4+1 Program

The Mathematics Program offers a Baccalaureate to Masters Program option in association with the Education Department for Lewis University undergraduate mathematics majors interested in secondary education licensure. All qualified mathematics majors may take advantage of this Baccalaureate to Masters Program option. This program option allows qualified undergraduates to complete the M.A. in Secondary Education in less time than would be possible if the two programs were taken separately. Nine graduate hours may be used both to complete the Bachelor’s degree (128 hours) and to satisfy specific course requirements for the Master’s program. The total number of required graduate credits (38) will remain the same.

Students may apply for admission to the Baccalaureate to Masters Program option by submitting the Application for Admission to a Baccalaureate to Masters program if they have accrued 75 credit hours and have a cumulative GPA of 3.0. Students admitted to the Baccalaureate to Masters Program may apply graduate courses to the 18-hour block in the semesters when they take these select graduate courses. With planning and summer coursework after completing the undergraduate degree, the M.A. in Secondary Education could be awarded within one year of graduating with the Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics. Students who take nine credit hours of selected graduate courses in Education in their senior year and earn a grade of “B” or better in each of those courses will have to complete only 29 more graduate credit hours to earn the M.A. Students accepted into this program are required to apply for admission to the M.A. in Secondary Education program.

Students admitted into this Baccalaureate to Masters Program will work with their advisor to select the nine hours of graduate coursework to be taken while completing their undergraduate degree. However, in order to complete the degree requirements in one year, SCED 51000 Frameworks in Education and SCED 51200 Instructional Strategies should account for six of these hours because of course sequencing requirements in the M.A. program.

See Baccalaureate-to-Masters Degree Program Guidelines for additional information.