About Educational Psychology in Mount Saint Vincent University

Program Information

Educational Psychology is the study of the mental processes that allow people to learn—to acquire new knowledge and develop new skills.  As you pursue a graduate degree in Educational Psychology, you will develop a deep understanding of the ways that people learn—the processes that allow us to acquire new information, and to develop new skills.  This knowledge will help you to become a more effective educator.

Program concentrations

As you earn your Master’s degree in Educational Psychology, you will pursue one of four areas of concentration:

• Education of the Blind or Visually Impaired: Our next MEd program will tentatively begin in April 2020, applications are being accepted so apply today.
• Education of the Deaf or Hard of Hearing: Our next MEd program will tentatively begin in April 2020, applications are being accepted so apply today.
• Evaluation: Our MEd programs are under review. We are not currently accepting applications to this program concentration.
• Human Relations: Our MEd programs are under review. We are not currently accepting applications to this program concentration.

Your Career

Our degrees will help you to develop your career as a classroom teacher, an itinerant teacher, or an educational consultant with learners who are blind/visually impaired or deaf/hard of hearing, an educator outside the public school system, or an educational administrator by obtaining advanced knowledge and skills in a concentrated area within the field of Educational Psychology. 

Graduates of our programs are working as classroom, itinerant, and community teachers, educators in the corporate, government, arts and not-for-profit sectors, consultants, administrators, scholars, and university and college instructors.

Academic qualification equivalents

• For entry into a Master's Degree: Completion of BOTH a Bachelor’s (three-year) degree and a Master’s OR a Bachelor’s degree requiring four years of study.Overall score must be 60%.​

English language requirements (one of the below):

• IELTS      :    7.0 (no band below 6.5)
• TOEFL    :    93 (No individual score below 23)

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