Combined Bachelor's/Master's Program

The Master of Extension Education offers the option for an Individual Student Bachelor’s/Master’s Program. Please visit the Undergraduate Catalog for the official policy. Interested candidates can start taking classes as early as their junior year. This accelerated, combined Bachelor’s/Master’s program allows undergraduate students to start their Extension Education graduate studies during their undergraduate studies. 

Benefits

• Save time and tuition
• Flexible course work
• Expand your career opportunities 
• Build skills and become competitive in the job market
• Engage in real world problem solving
• Prepare for leadership roles in community and outreach education research, and evaluation

Process

• Contact the AEED team about your interest; meet our AEED faculty directors and discuss goals and fit 
• Request the required approvals for the combined Bachelor’s-Master’s path
• Start taking graduate courses and gain interdisciplinary expertise in Extension Education, engage with an AEED advisor in addition to your undergraduate advisor
• Apply officially to the Master of Extension Education and the Graduate School and graduate with your bachelor's degree
• Choose between the AEED thesis and non-thesis option
• Graduate with a Master of Extension Education

About the Master’s of Extension Education

The Master of Extension Education features a multidisciplinary program with core courses focused on the extension principles shaping needs assessment, program development, evaluation, nonformal education, and social science research methodology as well as a suite of supportive elective courses in a variety of extension specialty areas. Graduates with Extension education experiences are prepared for dynamic careers in secondary and post-secondary education, non-profits, government, and leadership roles in enterprise.

For more information, please contact:

• aeedgradadmissions@umd.edu
• AEED Director: Dr. Melissa Welsh
• AEED Co-Director: Dr. Colby Silvert