Academic Programs - Graduate Programs
Designed for leaders
With its diverse array of graduate degrees as well as certificate and endorsement programs, Loyola University Chicago’s School of Education offers both working professionals committed to their craft and aspiring teachers and educational changemakers the opportunity to expand their skills, bolster their careers, and invigorate learning environments.
Whether it’s serving special needs learners, improving curriculum design, or strengthening research methods, the School of Education’s graduate-degree programs promote collaboration and robust inquiry to build a more just world. Loyola builds leaders ready to tackle contemporary challenges in the educational arena, thoughtful practitioners possessing the knowledge to drive transformational changes in school systems, and professionals eager to elevate student achievement and inspire new realities.
Counseling Psychology
Rooted in the Jesuit ideal of cura personalis—care for the whole person—and incorporating social justice principles, Loyola’s graduate programs in counseling psychology embrace multifaceted experiences, histories, and values. Programs emphasize applied research and professional development training, helping students understand the importance of advocacy and innovative counseling approaches to address the serious mental health, educational, and career outcome disparities facing diverse populations.
Educational Leadership
Designed for administrators and supervisors committed to becoming transformative, social justice–oriented leaders in educational systems, Loyola’s educational leadership programs focus on meeting contemporary challenges in education and supporting the academic, social, and spiritual growth of students. Program alumni inhabit roles at the highest levels of the Illinois State Board of Education and throughout Illinois school districts.
Higher Education
With rigorous curricula grounded in social justice and critical thinking, Loyola’s higher education programs prepare a new generation of executive-level leaders at higher education institutions in the U.S. and abroad. The program challenges its students to think deeply about the roles and responsibilities of post-secondary education, including issues of access and equity, as well as the values necessary to serve students and communities.
Research Methodology
In educational settings, data is a powerful tool informing action, policy, and advocacy. And yet, numbers alone do not create impactful solutions. Loyola’s interdisciplinary-minded research methodology program uses a mixed-methods approach, blending quantitative and qualitative approaches to help educational leaders drive meaningful change that positively impacts classrooms and communities.
School Psychology
Loyola’s school psychology programs ready future school psychologists to provide high-quality, effective academic, behavioral, and mental health support to youth in PK–12 environments. Loyola students learn to conduct research, collaborate with various stakeholder groups, and engage in evidence-based practices through a social justice lens, which helps them create more equitable school-based experiences supporting student health and growth.
Graduate: Teaching and Learning
Loyola’s teaching and learning programs provide graduate students a more thorough and comprehensive understanding of pedagogy, curriculum design, assessment, classroom management, and other critical skills necessary to enliven classrooms and bolster student success. It creates leaders with the requisite knowledge to impact learners, make consequential change in education-related settings, and advance in their professional careers.
Designed for leaders
With its diverse array of graduate degrees as well as certificate and endorsement programs, Loyola University Chicago’s School of Education offers both working professionals committed to their craft and aspiring teachers and educational changemakers the opportunity to expand their skills, bolster their careers, and invigorate learning environments.
Whether it’s serving special needs learners, improving curriculum design, or strengthening research methods, the School of Education’s graduate-degree programs promote collaboration and robust inquiry to build a more just world. Loyola builds leaders ready to tackle contemporary challenges in the educational arena, thoughtful practitioners possessing the knowledge to drive transformational changes in school systems, and professionals eager to elevate student achievement and inspire new realities.
Counseling Psychology
Rooted in the Jesuit ideal of cura personalis—care for the whole person—and incorporating social justice principles, Loyola’s graduate programs in counseling psychology embrace multifaceted experiences, histories, and values. Programs emphasize applied research and professional development training, helping students understand the importance of advocacy and innovative counseling approaches to address the serious mental health, educational, and career outcome disparities facing diverse populations.
Educational Leadership
Designed for administrators and supervisors committed to becoming transformative, social justice–oriented leaders in educational systems, Loyola’s educational leadership programs focus on meeting contemporary challenges in education and supporting the academic, social, and spiritual growth of students. Program alumni inhabit roles at the highest levels of the Illinois State Board of Education and throughout Illinois school districts.
Higher Education
With rigorous curricula grounded in social justice and critical thinking, Loyola’s higher education programs prepare a new generation of executive-level leaders at higher education institutions in the U.S. and abroad. The program challenges its students to think deeply about the roles and responsibilities of post-secondary education, including issues of access and equity, as well as the values necessary to serve students and communities.
Research Methodology
In educational settings, data is a powerful tool informing action, policy, and advocacy. And yet, numbers alone do not create impactful solutions. Loyola’s interdisciplinary-minded research methodology program uses a mixed-methods approach, blending quantitative and qualitative approaches to help educational leaders drive meaningful change that positively impacts classrooms and communities.
School Psychology
Loyola’s school psychology programs ready future school psychologists to provide high-quality, effective academic, behavioral, and mental health support to youth in PK–12 environments. Loyola students learn to conduct research, collaborate with various stakeholder groups, and engage in evidence-based practices through a social justice lens, which helps them create more equitable school-based experiences supporting student health and growth.
Graduate: Teaching and Learning
Loyola’s teaching and learning programs provide graduate students a more thorough and comprehensive understanding of pedagogy, curriculum design, assessment, classroom management, and other critical skills necessary to enliven classrooms and bolster student success. It creates leaders with the requisite knowledge to impact learners, make consequential change in education-related settings, and advance in their professional careers.