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Now in its sixth decade, the University of Hartford (UHart) sits proudly on a 350-acre main campus that includes parts of Hartford, West Hartford and Bloomfield. It provides a beautifully landscaped vista with grassy expanses and wooded areas with a branch of the Park River winding through it.

Despite its bucolic setting and relatively small size, UHart offers a dynamic student experience charged with diversity in its programs, activities, and student body. International and U.S. students of color comprise 43 percent of all undergraduates.

At the University of Hartford, students pursue a wide range of interests and talents. They are dance team members who major in accounting, division basketball players who study biomedical engineering, and health science majors who teach English in Ecuador and plan to join the Peace Corps.

Alumni include Broadway and film actors, opera standouts, internationally known artists and musicians, professional all-star athletes, successful business entrepreneurs, award-winning teachers and nurses, engineers who make groundbreaking discoveries and doctors who are leaders in their fields.

The University of Hartford provides a robust, distinctive educational experience for its more than 4,000 undergraduate and 1,700 graduate students. Distinguished faculty provide rigorous instruction as well as research, performance and internship opportunities in more than 100 degree programs in the arts, humanities, business, education, health, and engineering and technology professions. With students from 48 states and 63 countries, we are a university for the world.

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At UHart the professors are so passionate about teaching and... I met new people with the shared passion of becoming future educators.

Undergraduate Sophomore in Education

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Programs

Master’s & certification

Special Education MEd

  • From 24 to 30 months

    Program Duration

  • Online

    Program Format

  • Pre-Test Required

    Yes

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Program Info

The online Master of Education in Special Education (MEd) at the University of Hartford prepares you to become a highly competent teaching professional. The program's aim is to ensure that special education teachers are equipped not only with knowledge of a range of disciplines related to the needs of children with disabilities, but that they are also highly skilled in instruction, and proficient at being sensitive collaborators with families and other educational specialists.

The program offers three tracks: 

  • The Advanced Program is for teachers who have an initial or provisional certificate in special education and would like to qualify to apply to the state of Connecticut for the next level of certification. This track is also for you if you're a non-certified teachers who wants to gain expertise in the field of special education.
  • The Cross Endorsement Program is for licensed teachers who are already licensed to teach in Connecticut in another content area. 
  • The Initial Certificate Program is for students who hold a bachelor’s degree and want to become licensed special education teachers in Connecticut. This includes substitute teachers, para educators, school psychologists, and other folks who want to become teachers. 

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Ways to Lower Your Costs

Students at University of Hartford have reduced the cost of their program using these methods. Check with University of Hartford to see if you can, too!

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Certifications

Special Education K-12

Stats

Gender
  • Male

  • Female


    16%

    84%

Ethnicity
  • American Indian or Alaskan Native

  • Asian

  • Black

  • Hispanic/Latino

  • Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander

  • White

  • Two or more races


    0%

    5%

    9%

    8%

    0%

    78%

    0%

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