Requirements

Admission Procedures and Requirements

You must apply to both the Auburn University Graduate School and the Rehabilitation and Special Education Department (RSED). You may access both of these applications at the RSED departmental website.

The departmental and general admissions requirements include:

(a) completing and submitting the Graduate School application;

(b) taking the Graduate Record Exam and having your GRE scores sent to Auburn University (ETS Institutional Code 1005);

(c) having all transcripts sent to AU from previous undergraduate or graduate institutions you have attended (you must have an overall undergraduate GPA of a 2.5);

(d) submitting the $25 application fee

(e) complete the departmental application and send to Dr. Brown (see below); and

(f) have three letters of recommendation sent directly to:

Dr. Cari Dunn, Graduate Program Officer
2084 Haley Center
Auburn University, AL 36849.

Please see previous page, "Program Description" for the master's program admissions requirements.

Degree Requirements

• The Traditional Master's Program requires 31 hours.
• The 5th Year Master's Program requires 45 hours.
• All enrollees will be required to attend two summer sessions on campus of approximately 6 weeks. A primary focus of this on-campus time will be for the students to work under faculty supervision in the department’s Summer Learning Clinic in June, which serves over 150 children and youth.
• All graduate students must qualify to be a Highly Qualified Teacher as described by the "No Child Left Behind" Act. Please see the website for the Alabama State Department of Education, Alabama Model for Highly Qualified Teachers. If applicants lack the required undergraduate courses to be deemed highly qualified, they must arrange to take them concurrently with and independently of this program.