Application Requirements
Master of Arts in Teaching

Regular Admission- MAT

In addition to the completed application form, applicants for each program must meet admission criteria.

Elementary: Applicants to the MAT elementary program must meet the following requirements:

  1. Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution.
  2. Minimum 2.5 grade point average in their most recent 60 credit hours of undergraduate work.
  3. Verification of employment in an accredited school.
  4. Agreement with a school-based mentor with at least 3+ years of teaching experience.
  5. Ability to complete initial coursework prior to the first day of teaching.
  6. Successful fingerprinting and background check to earn a L.E.A.P. license from KSDE (for candidates teaching in Kansas). 

Secondary: Applicants to the MAT secondary program must meet the following requirements:

  1. Undergraduate degree or graduate degree in the content area for which the license is sought.
  2. Minimum 2.75 grade point average in their most recent 60 credit hours of undergraduate work.
  3. Passing score on the Praxis content test.
  4. Verification of employment in an accredited school.
  5. Agreement with a school-based mentor with at least 3+ years of teaching experience.
  6. Ability to complete initial coursework prior to the first day of teaching.
  7. Successful fingerprinting and background check to earn a Restricted license from KSDE (for candidates teaching in Kansas).

Probational Admission-MAT

​Applicants with less than the required GPA or secondary candidates who have not passed the Praxis content test may be admitted on a probationary status. Students admitted probationally due to GPA will have their status re-evaluated after the completion of the first six hours of graduate work at Benedictine College in the prescribed curriculum of the program as follows:

  1. ​Those students who achieve a minimum GPA of 3.0 in the first six hours of the prescribed curricula will be granted regular admission status.
  2. ​Those students who do not achieve a minimum GPA of 3.0 in the first six hours of the prescribed curricula will be dismissed from the program.

Secondary students admitted provisionally who have not passed the Praxis content exam may have until the end of the 2nd semester of coursework to do so. Failure to pass this exam by this point will lead to dismissal from the program.

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