Program Overview

Program Overview

The Master of Arts (M.A.) in Educational Leadership (Non-Thesis) is a course-based program offered by the Department of Integrated Studies in Education in the Faculty of Education at McGill University. This program emphasizes career-focused and innovative learning opportunities, aiming to equip students with skills in problem identification, critical thinking, and communication to pursue professional opportunities or potentially continue their studies.

Program Options

The program may be taken as one of the following options:

• Course Work option: Primarily course-based with an emphasis on evidence-based skills, capacities, and dispositions needed for effective, collaborative, and quality leadership.
• Gender and Women's Studies option: Provides students with an opportunity to earn credits of approved course work and action-oriented projects focusing on gender and women’s studies, and issues in feminist research and methods.
• Project option: Combines course work and action-oriented projects with an emphasis on the evidence-based skills, capacities, and dispositions needed for effective, collaborative, and quality leadership.

Unique Program Features

• The program is designed to prepare leaders in the field of education who are committed to personal and institutional improvement in schools and other sites of formal or informal learning. A central theme of the program is the impact of policy on educational practice at local, national, and international levels.
• Students will develop evidence-based skills and refine their capacities and dispositions needed for effective, collaborative, and quality leadership.
• The program tends to be more appropriate for those looking to pursue graduate studies alongside full-time work or are primarily pursuing the degree for career advancement.

University-Level Admission Requirements

• An eligible Bachelor's degree with a minimum 3.0 GPA out of a possible 4.0 GPA.
• English-language proficiency requirement for this program: IELTS 7.0 overall with a 7.0 in the writing component; TOEFL 92 overall with a 22 in the writing component.

Available Intakes and Application Deadlines

• Intake: Fall
• Applications Open: September 15
• Application Deadline - International: January 1
• Application Deadline - Domestic (Canadian, Permanent Resident of Canada): January 1 Note: Application deadlines are subject to change without notice. Please check the application portal for the most up-to-date information.