Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis MS - Global Higher Education

This is a named option in the Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis M.S.

For more information, please check out the program website: https://ghe.elpa.education.wisc.edu/
For inquiries regarding the GHE program, please contact the GHE Program Director (see Contact Information in sidebar).

The Global Higher Education (GHE) Masters Degree Program focuses on training new generations of professionals and scholars in the field of international higher education who strive for social justice in a global context.

The Program

• Offers the unique opportunity to study higher education administration and leadership from both an American and international perspective.
• Prepares future leaders and researchers, practitioners and scholars in higher education in an intercultural, transnational context.
• Trains professionals for careers in international higher education (study abroad advising and program management, international student services, and international student recruitment, etc.)
• Prepares individuals with the capacities for critical thinking, problem-solving, data-driven decision making, and communication skills that will enable them to engage with internationalization of higher education, and to strive for social justice in a global context.

Unique Strengths of the Program

• Connect education with careers
• Embedded internship and career development program
• Integrated Professional Development and leadership skill training
• Intensive Advising and career coaching throughout the program
• A family-like collaborative learning community
• Student-centered and individual attention throughout the program

A bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited U.S. institution or a comparable degree from an international institution is required. International applicants must have a degree comparable to a regionally accredited U.S. bachelor’s degree. You must have completed your undergraduate degree, or similar, before starting graduate school.

A minimum undergraduate grade-point average (GPA) of 3.00 on the equivalent of the last 60 semester hours (approximately two years of work) or a master’s degree with a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.00 is required. Applicants from an international institution must demonstrate strong academic achievement comparable to a 3.00 for an undergraduate or master’s degree. The Graduate School will use your institution’s grading scale. Do not convert your grades to a 4.00 scale.

Every applicant whose native language is not English, or whose undergraduate instruction was not in English, must provide an English proficiency test score. TOEFL scores must be submitted electronically via ETS. IELTS scores can be submitted electronically or by paper.  Our office address is: UW-Madison Graduate School, Office of Admissions, 232 Bascom Hall, 500 Lincoln Drive, Madison, WI 53706.  Your score will not be accepted if it is more than two years old from the start of your admission term. Country of citizenship does not exempt applicants from this requirement. Language of instruction at the college or university level and how recent the language instruction was taken are the determining factors in meeting this requirement.

Applicants are exempt if: