Educational Leadership – (M.A.)

Requirements

Application Information

The Master’s Degree Programme in Educational Leadership (MPEL) is intended for students who have acquired a Bachelor’s degree in education or some related field. Applicants with also a relevant Master’s degree in education qualify for application. The programme encompasses 120 ETCS and leads to an officially certified Master’s Degree. The estimated intake in 2011 is 20 students with a global application process.

Application Requirements1) Bachelor’s degree (academic)/ first cycle degree, completed with good grades, in the fields of education, educational leadership or educational administration, or in another field leading to a teaching profession. Also holders of Master's degree in education are eligible provided the major is not in educational leadership, management or administration.
2) Basic knowledge of research methodology
3) Interest in or experience of the field of educational leadership (such as work
experience, studies, presentations or written documents)
4) Excellent command of English (specified below)

English Proficiency Requirement:The programme is conducted in English. All applicants who are not native speakers have to be able to demonstrate their English language proficiency at the time of the interview. The required level of English proficiency for the programme is equivalent to
1) a TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) score of minimum 600 (paper-based) or 100 (internet-based) (
When filling out the TOEFL Registration Form, please fill in University Admission Finland's Institution Code 3138 in the Score Report Recipient field. The TOEFL test score must arrive directly from the test organiser. Score slips or their copies provided by applicants are not accepted.

2) an IELTS (academic) (International English Language Testing System) score of minimum 7.0 (
For the IELTS test, it usually takes 13 days for the result to be published after you have taken the test.
3) a Cambridge ESOL’s Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE) or Cambridge ESOL’s Certificate in Advanced English (CAE) grade C or above (a secondary level education diploma and Bachelor’s degree studied in English, accompanied with a letter of verification from the awarding institution.5) a Bachelor’s degree certificate with the English language as a major.

Please address all language test results to the University Admissions Finland. An applicant's copy of the test score is also acceptable, as long as it is verifiable from the test organiser. Test scores sent as an attachments to an email message are not acceptable. If you are applying to more than one programme and you verify your language skills to them with the same language test, University Admissions Finland needs to receive the test result only once.

All language test results must be sent to the University Admissions Finland by the application deadline (University Admissions Finland, Snellmaninkatu 14 B, FI-00170 Helsinki, Finland). It is the applicant’s responsibility to make testing arrangements for her/himself in time. Please be prepared that it may take several weeks before the test results are published.

Other attachments1) An officially certified copy of passport's information page
2) Curriculum vitae, CV (only in Europass form will be excepted).

Application Dates and Deadlines

* Deadline for applications: January 17, 2011, at 16.15 (GMT +2)
* Candidates selected for interview informed by March 1, 2011
* Interviews: March 15 – April 8, 2011
* Selected students informed by April 30, 2011
* Participation to be confirmed August 2, 2011
* Studies to commence at the University of Jyväskylä: September 1, 2011