• Cert Degree Requirements
• Curriculum

The Multidisciplinary Program in Education Sciences (MPES) is designed for PhD students who want to pursue a research career researching pressing policy and practice issues in the field of education. Students acquire knowledge of related work in a group of core related disciplines and engage in education-related research informed by the resulting cross-disciplinary insights. The program provides a unified system of research mentoring and coursework for students from a wide spectrum of academic fields.

Participants, known as MPES Fellows, are chosen by the MPES Steering Committee, with the advice of the MPES Departmental Program Coordinators in each participating academic program, from among doctoral students in good standing currently enrolled in one of six participating Graduate School programs. Participating programs are: Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences: Economics, Psychology, Sociology, Statistics; School of Education and Social Policy: Learning Sciences, Human Development and Social Policy. Applicants are chosen on the basis of the centrality of education to their programs of research and their scholarly promise.

To earn the MPES certificate, fellows take 13 required courses, some of which are core courses in their primary disciplines. The required courses fall into the categories of statistics (four courses), education policy (three courses), evaluation (three courses), learning and cognition (two courses), and development (one course). Specific courses vary depending on the individual fellow’s primary discipline.

Faculty

The primary appointment for those faculty with joint or affiliate status in another program is noted in parentheses.