Professional Education (MPEd)

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Please note: this program will not be admitting students for the 2026-2027 academic year. It is scheduled to launch in Fall 2027.

Master of Professional Education (MPEd)

Program Website: Master of Professional Education

Field(s) of Specialization

Creating Happy, Healthy, Just Educational Spaces
Living and Learning in a Connected World
Educational Leadership for People, Planet and Prosperity

Faculty and Administration

For a listing of program faculty and administrative contacts, please visit the program directory.

Program Description

The Master of Professional Education (MPEd) is a professional, course-based program designed to prepare students to leverage their educational knowledge and skills to achieve innovative solutions for increasingly more complex problems in educational and other professional contexts.

Graduates of the MPEd program will be well prepared to assume leadership roles or positions that require a strong foundation in pedagogy and curriculum development across diverse educational settings. Such settings include traditional classrooms, postsecondary institutions, corporate environments, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), government agencies, and not-for-profit organizations.

This program is only offered asynchronously online.

Admission Requirements

Applicants will normally hold a four-year Bachelor’s degree, or its equivalent, from an accredited institution with a minimum 75% (Brock University equivalent) average over the last two years of full-time undergraduate study. Successful teaching or other professional experience is an asset. Applicants required to demonstrate English language proficiency must achieve a minimum IELTS score of 7.5 with no subtest below 7.0, or recognized equivalent. Approved tests are outlined on the Graduate English Language Proficiency webpage.

Given the unique nature of the program no transfer credits will be accepted.

Degree Requirements

Total credits: 5.0

Typically, program requirements are completed at the rate of one course per term for a total of six terms (two years).

Students apply into one of the following three fields of specialization: Creating Happy, Healthy, Just Educational Spaces; Living and Learning in a Connected World; and Educational Leadership for People, Planet and Prosperity. Each field of specialization has six required courses.

For a full list of graduate course offerings by subject area, please refer to the Courses tab in the navigation menu.

Creating Happy, Healthy, Just Educational Spaces

This specialization focuses on ensuring learning environments are safe and socially just spaces. This field of study is premised on the notion that it is crucial that learning environments and workplaces are accessible to all, inclusive, and free from harassment, bullying and discrimination.

Students must successfully complete:

Living and Learning in a Connected World

This specialization focuses on digital innovation and learning in multimodal contexts. It teaches students to take risks, to use innovative technologies and to develop their social learning networks to critically address educational and professional issues.

Students must successfully complete:

Educational Leadership for People, Planet and Prosperity

This specialization focuses on ways that learners can respond to the myriad challenges facing the world by fostering life-sustaining and life-serving approaches to collective wellbeing for humans and the more-than-human world.

Students must successfully complete: