The Master of Science in Education degree program is designed with the busy working teacher in mind. 

15-Month Online Model: Students start the online model only in the summer (May) and complete the program in August of the following year. This unique 36-credit program is designed to be completed in sixteen months, with two courses completed each semester: summer session 1, summer session 2, fall, and spring. In recognition of the busy and tightly scheduled lives of professional educators today, the program takes advantage of the superior Marist online resources. Marist has a long history of collaborative research and development, including Marist/IBM collaboration, to build outstanding online learning environments. As a result, Marist now has cutting-edge technology platforms and includes the traditional services of email, chat, discussion groups, web servers, as well as Brightspace, a dynamic and flexible system for offering online coursework. This graduate program takes full advantage of these resources. Because this is a cohort-based model, courses are offered in a specified sequence and candidates follow the already set cohort program. Since this is a very intensive program in a 100% asynchronous online model, students must have good self-management and organization skills.