• Completion deadline
  • You must complete the program within seven years of when you began it.
• Program approval
  • Full-time students must receive advisor approval by the end of the first year of study
  • Part-time students must receive advisor approval by the end of the second year of study
• Coursework, minimum of 90 hours, distributed as follows:
  • Forty-eight of the required 90 hours must be completed at Ball State
  • Major in one of the science fields listed below, 36 credit hours
    • Biology 
    • Chemistry
    • Computer science
    • Geology
    • Mathematical science
    • Natural resources and environmental management
    • Physics and astronomy
    • Physiology and health science
  • Cognate in another science field or related area, 24 credit hours
    • Option A: One science cognate of at least 24 hours in a science other than your or related area.
    • Option B*: One science cognate of at least 15 hours in a science other than your major, or related area, plus at least nine hours in education beyond the 12 hours *Note: We encourage Option B.
  • Coursework in teaching (not overlapping with an education cognate), 12 credit hours
    • EDHI 609 Teaching at the College Level
    • EDHI 610 Issues in Higher Education
    • EDPSY 646 Tests and Measurements
    • One course in learning or development

• Two semesters in the research colloquium
• At least one session presentation

Teaching Internship, (SCI 790)3 credit hours

• A supervised, extended internship to give you experience in conventional and technology-oriented systems instruction

• Option A: Two consecutive semesters, which may include one summer, during which at least 15 hours of graduate coursework must be completed.
• Option B: At least 24 hours in four consecutive semesters, including summer(s), with at least six hours taken each semester