If you are planning to use Financial Aid to finance your degree, please consult the MSU Office of Financial Aid's chart for program eligibility.
Describe a learning experience that had a powerful impact on you. Why was that experience powerful? How has that experience shaped your thinking about learning?
When designing a learning experience, what is your thought process?
Provide evidence of your preparation for graduate-level writing, specifically focusing on the composition of arguments, and/or multimodal expression of your ideas. (Examples of evidence may include your senior undergraduate thesis, an essay you're especially proud of, a grant proposal, a professional report or policy document, multimedia productions, screencasts, etc.) URLs to online published work is preferred.
What personal and professional goals will you meet through participation in the MAET degree program?
After you complete the university application and pay the application fee ($65 fee for domestic applicants or $75 fee for international applicants), you will receive an email with directions for accessing the Graduate Education Application (GEA) Portal.
In the Graduate Education Application Portal, provide contact information for three (3) colleagues, mentors or supervisors who have agreed to write letters of recommendation to support your application. You will need to include: first and last name, job title, employer and email address for each recommender.
Letters of recommendation should come from mentors, colleagues, administrators or supervisors who can also tell us about your academic performance, work ethic and professional character. Letters should speak specifically to your preparation for this program and for graduate-level study, more generally.
Please do not submit letters from personal or character references. Please do not submit generic letters of recommendation, letters of recommendation written to support your application to a job or letters that provide no insight into your preparation for graduate study.
We do not accept letters uploaded directly by applicants.
Students who completed their undergraduate degree at Michigan State University do not need to submit official MSU transcripts to apply to the MAET program. Transcripts from all other institutions listed on the university application must, however, be submitted. These transcripts need to be requested directly from your degree-granting institutions. MSU will not accept transcripts marked 'Issued to Student' or paper transcripts delivered outside of an officially sealed university envelope. Please note: If you previously submitted transcripts as part of your application to a Graduate Certificate program, you do not have to send another set of transcripts. Also note, MSU will not accept electronic transcripts issued by international universities. If you are applying from an institution outside of the USA, please have your official transcripts sent via snail mail to Candace Marcotte (see address below).
For applicants who attended US institutions, we prefer electronic transcripts. Electronic transcripts can be sent to the attention of Maria Serrato at – edutech@msu.edu.
Before filling out the university application, please review the information and materials you will need to gather, and then upload. We provide the list of information and required materials below.
We admit students to the Master's of Educational Technology degree program on a rolling basis which means you can submit your application at any time. Applications are reviewed on a weekly basis but it may take approximately one month to hear of your admissions decision.
Please keep in mind the following hard deadlines for applications to specific programs.
*If you are planning to apply for the East Lansing Hybrid Cohort, please contact MAET because we may have more flexibility in our deadlines for that program.
Applicants for whom English is not their first language are required to submit proof of English language proficiency before their application can be processed. A common method is the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). The test must have been taken within two years of the application. On the Internet-based Test (TOEFL iBT), the university requires a minimum score of 80 with no subscore below 19 for reading, listening and speaking and no writing subscore below 22. No international candidates will be considered for admission review until they have taken the TOEFL test and achieved these required scores or higher. Results should be sent electronically directly from ETS. Michigan State's school code is 1465.
If the student has completed a degree program in an English speaking country, he or she can request a waiver of the TOEFL requirement. Once the program admissions committee is convinced of the student's English language skills based on past program completion and other evidence, it will ask the university to waive the requirement. This waiver is usually granted, but the university may require the student to take the English proficiency test upon arrival at MSU.
All applicants pursuing or who have earned degrees from universities in China submit not only transcripts and graduation certificates from China, but must also obtain verification of these documents from the China Academic Degrees and Graduate Education Development Center (CDGDC).
CDGDC operates underneath the Ministry of Education for the purpose of verifying the authenticity of transcripts and degrees granted at the post-secondary level.
Applicants send copies of their official documents to the CDGDC along with payment (approximately $40 U.S.).
Applicants must request that the original transcript accompany the CDGDC verified documents when sent to MSU.
CDGDC verifies grades and degrees (depending on what is requested) by accessing national and provincial databases and contacting universities directly.
CDGDC then sends the report and verified documents, via courier service, directly to Michigan State University. The report is in English and provides a statement noting what degree was conferred and whether the university and program is recognized by the Chinese Ministry of Education.
If you need more information about CDGDC please refer to the website: http://www.chinadegrees.cn/en/.
Our courses are offered in a fully online format, and therefore residency in the US is not required to complete the degree program. If you are an international applicant interested in the program, please note that the MAET program does not fulfill the academic requirements to apply for an F-1 or J-1 visa. MAET courses during the fall and spring semesters are completely online, thus, admission to the MAET program would not qualify you for a student visa.
Michigan State University is obligated to comply with state authorization laws regarding distance education. Because of these laws, residents of some US states are not eligible to apply to online programs at MSU. For a full review of state-by-state authorization laws, please review this summary document before you apply to an online program at MSU.
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