A higher degree of success
Learning in the modern context comes with new benefits, opportunities, and challenges for students. Today’s students have the capability to go further than ever—especially if they have the right leaders, educators, and success coaches to help them.
With your online Master of Education (MEd) in Student Success from Regis, you can learn to provide invaluable individualized support to help learners throughout your career achieve more through education.
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Add value to your skill set
The online MEd in Student Success provides a comprehensive look at issues related to student success. Coursework touches on a range of topics including academic coaching, higher ed law, neurology, psychology, and student support skills—to help you better engage with today’s learners on their terms.
If you’re in education, or you’re drawn to professions centered on teaching and helping, this degree can provide valuable skills to help you—and your students—thrive in the classroom and beyond.
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Who is this degree for?
Our MEd in Student Success is designed for those who want to devote their careers to helping others get the most out of their education. It focuses on using proven academic strategies to help students across ages and skill levels develop the social and emotional intelligence, self-advocacy, and resiliency to thrive in education and life.
If you love working with students or have a supportive, service-oriented personality, this degree may be your next step toward the career you’ve always wanted.
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Why choose Regis College?
- Complete coursework 100% online and participate in real-world experiences and optional on-campus networking opportunities.
- Apply with no GRE and choose from three start dates—spring, summer, and fall.
- Benefit from highly focused 8-week courses and graduate in as few as 16 months.
- Earn an education from an institution regionally accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education.
- Learn from experienced faculty who offer practical guidance and personalized support.
Help students find their best
You’re here because you want to devote the next stage in your career to helping students go further—in the classroom and beyond. We designed our online MEd in Student Success to help you build a generalist skill set to be a success-maker for secondary and higher education students of all ability levels and backgrounds.
Add proven skills to your background in education, or prepare to pursue meaningful work in areas like advising, academic coaching, tutoring, and disability services.
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A wide-ranging curriculum
We built our curriculum in conjunction with industry-experienced educators and professionals to focus on what it takes for today’s students—with today’s challenges and opportunities—to discover their full potential.
Coursework is based on cutting-edge theories and research on topics like academic coaching, neurology, psychology, special education, and adolescent values—to help you provide guidance and success strategies for individuals and groups based on their needs and strengths.
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Real-world field placement
At Regis, we know what you learn in the classroom is only truly valuable when you apply it in your career. As part of your MEd education, you’ll have three field opportunities to build practical skills to prepare you for working with real-world students.
Two of your courses feature shadowing opportunities focused on academic coaching and the neurology of learning in adolescents, and one course features an extended field placement focused on working with students who have special needs.
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Flexible and approachable
The MEd in Student Success comprises just 12 courses and can be completed in about 16 months. All coursework is online, so you can study and complete assignments when and where it’s convenient for you.
Our 8-week course format also gives you the opportunity to immerse yourself and focus more deeply on just one or two topics at a time. Full-time learning typically takes place over two 8-week blocks per semester, with two classes each.
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Online but not alone
Our MEd is fully online for maximum flexibility, but we recognize the value of networking and human connections. With attentive faculty and optional in-person experiences, you’ll have plenty of opportunity to interact with colleagues and faculty.
Twice a year, we invite you to participate in on-campus lectures and receptions focused on special topics related to academic success. You also may complete one of your two placements in the on-campus Finucane and O’Sullivan Institute for Learning.
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Prepare for your future
Want to go further once you complete your master’s degree? With Regis, you can get a head start on your Doctor of Education (EdD).
After completing your MEd in Student Success, you can apply up to two courses (six credit hours) toward your future EdD in Higher Education Leadership. That means you’ll already be on your way toward a terminal degree, saving you both time and tuition costs on credits earned once you choose to take your next step.
Further your education and help others go far
If you’re ready to pursue rewarding work and help students achieve more, our online Master of Education in Student Success might be the degree for you. In just 12 courses (36 credit hours), you can earn a master’s degree that helps you make a difference in education.
The curriculum also gives you real-world experience through two shadowing opportunities and a classroom-based field placement.
ED 700 Support Skills for Secondary and Post-Secondary Students
Higher education administrators play a large role in supporting students on campus. This support is informed by the theories that guide counseling and helping professions. In this course, students will gain skills and techniques that allow them to holistically support students as they progress toward degree completion. This course will prepare individuals to provide challenge and support for students in multiple phases of their enrollment at the institution.
ED 701 Higher Education Law
Law plays a large role in educational institutions both in how policies are created and how administrators go about their jobs. Through this course, students will develop a greater understanding of how laws are passed. This course will help students to understand how federal acts and laws impact the work that they do and will become more informed practitioners that are in compliance with federal regulation.
ED 702 Assessment in Special Education
This course addresses the principles of both formal and informal assessment of children and adolescents with mild to moderate disabilities. It will provide experience with informal and formal assessment measures. Basic concepts of measurement will be covered so that students can evaluate test instruments and interpret test results knowledgeably. Current issues in the field of assessment will be discussed and ethical issues emphasized throughout the course.
ED 703 Principles of Academic Coaching*
Academic coaching is an emerging and evolving field that is at the forefront of retention efforts in higher education. This course will teach students how to apply the most recent ideas and concepts in the field of academic coaching to their work as higher education administrators. Upon completion of this course students will be able to holistically support students toward academic persistence degree completion, and career success.
ED 704 Building Academic Learning Communities
Learning communities are one way that institutions are able to increase student learning and create self-sufficient learners. In this course, students will learn the history of learning communities and the theory that guides the professionals that create and facilitate them. Students will be exposed to ideas of design thinking and learn innovative strategies to incorporate design thinking into their work with colleagues and students. Students will engage in a hands-on experience as they craft their own learning community by the conclusion of the course.
ED 705 Educating and Advocating for Secondary and Postsecondary Students
Administrators working in institutes of secondary and postsecondary learning are also educators and advocates. As a coach and/or mentor, you are tasked with advocating for students that are at disadvantage and, in turn, helping them to develop the skills needed to practice self-advocacy. In this course, you will learn how to develop students into confident learners who are able to navigate their own unique learning needs.
ED 706 Psychology of Learning
Despite being engaged in learning from an early age, most students don't fully understand how they learn most effectively. In this course, students will focus on educational pedagogies, curriculum, instruction, and assessment as related to new research on how to teach different cultures/populations based on the changing demographics.
ED 707 Neurology of Learning and The Adolescent Brain**
Student learning is central to institutions of learning. It can happen both inside and outside the classroom, but it is always the main goal of schools and educators. In this course, students will look at the neurological underpinnings of learning as a science and the neuroscience of learning to gain an understanding of how the brain works with learning. As a result, the content covered in this course will allow students to go out into their professions and use theory based in science for how they develop and teach their students.
ED 708 History of Higher Education
In this course, students will examine the past, present, and future of higher education both in the United States and worldwide. By looking at historical context, students will gain a stronger grasp on issues such as access, retention, inclusion, engagement, and success, and will explore how the history of the institution has and will continue to impact the present-day landscape.
ED 709 Values, Gratitude, and Resiliency for Adolescents and Young Learners
This course explores the relationship of values, gratitude, and resiliency from a brain-based perspective that is translated into the learning process. Trauma has a profound effect on teaching and learning. This course offers strategies to create trauma-sensitive learning environments for students in all content areas, grade levels, and educational settings.
ED 710 Contemporary Issues in Special Education
This course addresses the historical, philosophical, and ethical perspectives of education services for students with special needs. Federal and state laws and regulations pertaining to special education will be studied. Legal and educational terminology and definitions for students with mild to moderate disabilities will be discussed. Knowledge of services provided by other agencies, such as augmentative and alternative communicative, assistive technology, development of an individualized education plan (IEP), and relevant current literature are covered in this course.
ED 711 Curriculum Adaptations/Differentiated Instruction for Students with Special Needs*
This course will address students with moderate disabilities as well as the design or modification of curriculum, instructional materials, and general education classroom environments for these students. Emphasis will be placed on differentiated instruction that focuses on developing appropriate strategies for meeting the needs of diverse learners. It will align with the principles of inclusion with their educational implementation by exploring and applying instructional strategies and curricular adaptations that are most effective in the general education setting. A field-based experience is required.
* ED 703 and ED 711 feature a real-world shadowing component.
** ED 707 features a required field placement experience.
About Regis College
For more than 95 years, Regis College has supported learners in their journey to realize their full potential, reach their personal and professional goals, and become forces of good in the world. It’s our mission to help empower people to challenge themselves as they prepare to serve and lead through education.
With our focus on student success and our commitment to social justice and service, we help students in the greater Boston area and around the globe achieve more and go further.
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Diverse learning opportunities
Regis College is a coed university 12 miles west of Boston in Weston, Mass., founded by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Boston.
With more than 3,200 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students enrolled on campus and in fully online graduate programs, Regis provides an academically rigorous education within the schools of nursing, arts and sciences, business and communication, and health sciences.
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A culture of curiosity
Our School of Arts and Sciences gives students an avenue through which to engage with and study a range of subjects, including biomedical engineering, criminal justice, cybersecurity, education, environmental sustainability, and the humanities. Here, we promote universal skills like creative thinking, problem solving, and communication through theory and real-world practice.
The School of Arts and Sciences also houses our Public Heritage Institute, as well as the Pi Gamma Mu Honor Society.
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Via Veritas Vita
Our motto, Via Veritas Vita, translates to “the way and the truth and the light.” These words drive our mission of empowering learners through knowledge to live meaningful lives and contribute to our global society.
Today, Regis boasts an alumni network more than 20,000 strong. This supportive, tight-knit community has a history of professional success in the job market: 97% of our graduates find full-time work or pursue further education within six months of graduation.
Priscilla Boerger, EdD, MEd
Dr. Priscilla Boerger previously served as an elementary school lead teacher and as faculty in the School of Education at Lynn University. At Regis, she is the department of education chair, program director of the EdD in Higher Education Leadership, MEd in Teaching Special Education, and the MEd in Student Success programs.
Her research explores college access and transition for first-generation students, women college presidents, and diversity/equity/social justice in the classroom.