Doctor of Philosophy in Education - Special Education

The Ph.D. in Special Education is a joint doctoral program within the Graduate College of Education, SF State and the Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley. The doctoral committee is co-directed by a faculty member from each campus who functions in consultation with the Executive Committee composed of faculty members from both campuses. Student performance and competencies are required to meet the scholarly requirements of the Graduate Studies Divisions of both institutions.

Members of the SF State faculty are from the Department of Special Education, which represents multiple areas of study relating to people with disabilities. Faculty from departments such as communicative disorders, psychology, sociology, social work, ethnic studies, and English may also be available to work with doctoral students. The majority of the University of California, Berkeley faculty come from the Graduate School of Education and includes faculty from each of the major divisions: education, language, literacy, and culture, cognition and development, policy, organization, measurement, and evaluation, and social and cultural studies. In addition, faculty from several associated fields such as psychology, linguistics, public health, optometry, anthropology, public policy, social welfare, and social and behavioral sciences also participate in the program. Students are assigned a primary advisor from each campus.

The major factors used in the selection of candidates are:

• undergraduate grade point average;
• graduate grade point average;

Deadline, December 1 (Fall Admission Only)

Minimum TOEFL iBT 80, IELTS 7.0 or PTE 65; some majors require higher scores.