Special Education Certificate

This 12-credit hour graduate certificate is designed to provide the knowledge and understanding needed for regular K-12 classroom teachers, who are interested in acquiring more skills and knowledge to better serve special needs students in their classroom, and/or would like to add Cross-Categorical Special Education Mild/Moderate Disabilities certification to their teaching license by taking the Special Education content exam.  The certificate does not give students a MoDESE certification. 

Admission Requirements for the Certificate Program

The applicant seeking admission to the program must:

• Have a bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution;
• Submit verification of a current teaching certificate;
• Complete all parts of the online application;
• Submit official transcript(s) of all college-level work completed; and
• Have a grade point average of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale.
• International students: an official transcript and/or an official transcript evaluation is required for admittance into a graduate program;
• Students whose primary language is not English are required to submit official score reports of the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) exam. The examination results should not be more than two years old. The minimum TOEFL score required is 550. The International English Language Testing System (IELTS) exam scores may be submitted in lieu of the TOEFL. The minimum IELTS exam score required for admission is an overall score of 6.5 with no individual band score below 5.5.