Equivalent U.S. Bachelor's Degree. All prior College/University transcripts and Diploma. TOEFL IBT - 79. TOEFL Paper-Based - 550. IELTS - 6.5.
All students must apply for and be admitted into the approved M.S.Ed. with initial licensure program for Early Childhood Education (grades PreK-3). The following admission criteria must be met:
The Bachelor of Science Degree in Interdisciplinary Studies with a concentration in teacher education, primary/elementary from the College of Arts and Letters at Old Dominion University is required.
Students must meet the criteria for admission by passing the Virginia Board of Education prescribed assessments and earning the minimum required grade point averages (GPA). Virginia Board of Education prescribed assessments are outlined in the Teacher Education Services and Advising section of this catalog. To review more information on the Virginia Board of Education prescribed assessments, visit the Teacher Education Services website, http://www.odu.edu/tes.
A cumulative undergraduate GPA of 2.80 is required for admission.
No courses in the academic major in which the student has made below a C will be accepted for admission in the Darden College of Education and Professional Studies.
Satisfactory scores must be submitted on either the Graduate Record Examination or Miller Analogies Test. A combined verbal and quantitative score of 290 is required on the GRE, with at least a minimum score of 146 on the verbal section. A minimum score of 399 is required on the MAT.
An application for graduate studies and official transcripts must be submitted by the appropriate deadline for admission. Under certain circumstances, applicants who do not fully meet the requirements for regular admission to the program may be admitted on a provisional basis subject to conditions specified by the graduate program director for early childhood, PreK--3, education.