School Administration (MSA)

Program Admission Requirements

Applicants must:

• hold or be eligible to hold a North Carolina Class A Teaching License or a comparable license from another state,
• have completed at least 3 years of successful full-time teaching or equivalent experience in public schools. Pre-school teachers may include private sector experience,
• submit three letters of recommendation from employers or former instructors who are in a position to judge the applicant’s  aptitude for graduate study and potential as a school leader. One recommendation must be from the current immediate supervisor.
• submit current resume
• submit leadership goal statement (1-2 pages)

Program Description

The Masters in School Administration is earned through the completion of a two-year, six-semester graduate program.  Students will take twelve, three-credit courses, for a total of 36 credit-hours. This graduate program is a Distance Learning program.  However, one course per semester, excluding summer semesters, is delivered via a hybrid format.  This hybrid course meets face-to-face at our Biltmore Park Instructional Site in Asheville, NC from 9:00AM - 4:00PM. on four Saturdays during each semester.  The remaining instructional hours for the program will be delivered in an on-line format.

Within the 36 hour program, students will complete a school-based internship (6 credit hours) over 2 semesters.  Internships are competency-based and involve many aspects of a principal’s responsibilities, including leadership of an improvement initiative.