Admissions

Plan a Visit

Learn more about what the College of Education & Human Development and the MU campus have to offer. Schedule a campus visit! To include an appointment with the College of Education & Human Development in addition to your campus tour, select Education as an Academic Interest after you select a date for your tour.

For graduate program visits and application process, please see below.

Undergraduate Admissions

For general information about applying as an undergraduate student, please visit the MU Admissions site. We also encourage you to review our undergraduate degree programs offered in the College. You may also be interested in learning more about benefits available through TeachMO.org.  

Overview of the MU Admissions Application & CEHD Undergraduate Degree Programs 

When you start the MU Admissions application, under “status and interests” you will be asked to indicate if you are applying for degree or non-degree seeking. To apply to our Bachelor of Educational Studies (BES), Bachelor of Science (BS), or the Bachelor of Science in Education (BSEd) programs, you would select degree-seeking. 

Note: If you are applying as a transfer student or for re-admission to the University, you will then be asked if you plan to seek a Bachelor’s degree or a certificate program. Select Bachelor’s in order to apply to our BES, BS, or BSEd programs.  

You will then be asked to indicate if you plan to seek a degree on-campus or online. This is an important selection point as you will only be shown the relevant programs in the menu that follows. The use of asterisks in the lists below are intended to highlight which degree programs can lead to certification. These asterisks will not appear within the application itself.

If you choose on-campus, you will see the following program options:  

Education – Early Childhood* 
Education – Educational Studies  
Education – Educational Studies – Educational Games and Simulation Design 
Education – Educational Studies – Educational Leadership 
Education – Elementary* 
Education – Middle School Language Art* 
Education – Middle School Mathematics* 
Education – Middle School Science* 
Education – Middle School Social Studies*  
Education – Secondary Biology*  
Education – Secondary Chemistry*  
Education – Secondary Earth Science*  
Education – Secondary Language Arts* 
Education – Secondary Mathematics* 
Education – Secondary Physics* 
Education – Secondary Social Studies*  
Education – Special*  
Education – Undeclared  
Human Development and Family Science – Child Life Specialist 
Human Development and Family Science – Family & Lifespan Development 

If you choose online, you will see the following program options:

Education – Early Childhood – Online* 
Education – Elementary – Online*
Education – Special – Cross-Categorical – Online*
Educational Studies – Online  
Educational Studies – Educational Games and Simulation Design – Online  
Educational Studies – Educational Leadership – Online  
Human Development and Family Science – Family & Lifespan Development – Online
Human Development and Family Science – Early Childhood Education in a Mobile Society – Online  

Graduate Admissions

To apply for a graduate program, most applicants will start with the online graduate application.

The Graduate School website includes information about the application process for:

  • Degree-seeking, non-degree-seeking and certificate program applicants
  • Distance/online students
  • Dual enrollment for senior undergraduate students
  • Readmitted students

Be sure to check application instructions for your individual graduate degree program, as there might be additional instructions or materials you’ll need to complete.

Please reach out to your specific graduate department for questions or additional information: