Overview

Why Earn Your Master’s Degree or Advanced Certificate in Early Childhood Education?The early years of birth to age 8 are crucial in terms of a child’s intellectual, social, and emotional development. As an early childhood educator, you’ll take a key role in helping your students develop and setting them up for success in the classroom and throughout their lives. Adelphi’s master’s in early childhood education is offered as a single certificate or can be completed as part of a dual certificate in early childhood and early childhood special education. The mastery and expertise you’ll earn will set you up with the skills to teach all children in this age range with confidence. We also offer an advanced certificate in early childhood special education. The preservice program in early childhood is available to those without prior teaching certification. The inservice program in early childhood is available to those with prior teaching certification in another area. The advanced certificate program is for those who have a teaching certificate in another area and a master’s degree who wish to be certified in early childhood.

Why Earn Your Master’s or Advanced Certificate in Early Childhood and/or Early Childhood Special Education at Adelphi, Right Here in New York?

You’ll learn to teach by teaching through our strong partnerships with local school districts in Nassau County, Suffolk County, and New York City. Or you can student teach right on our Garden City campus, in our Alice Brown Early Learning Center.
You’ll learn to help children adapt to changing circumstances and our changing world, and appreciate and respect people from diverse backgrounds and cultures. Adelphi University is a three-time winner of the INSIGHT Into Diversity Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award in recognition of its commitment to diversity and inclusion.
Earn your master’s degree in early childhood and early childhood special education at a pace that works for you, with options for full- and part-time enrollment and convenient evening classes.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Child Development (Birth–Grade 2)
Early Childhood Curriculum and Instruction
Language and Literacy Development
Assessment in Early Childhood Education
Family, School, and Community Partnerships
Multicultural Education in Early Childhood

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Duration

Full-time
- 24 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-01-25 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-11-01 00:00:00 , International
Starting 2027-08-24 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-03-01 00:00:00 , International

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National: Rolling admission.

Language

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Credits

30 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Garden City, United States

Disciplines

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General requirements

Online application form and $60 fee
Online survey completed by two recommenders
Personal essay (500 words)
Official college transcripts
Course-by-course evaluation: All graduate applicants with undergraduate-level work completed outside of the United States will be required to send a course-by-course evaluation of their academic work prepared by a NACES member organization. Adelphi recommends you use The Evaluation Company (TEC) or IEE (discount provided for Adelphi applicants), ECE, or WES, but any NACES member evaluation would be acceptable.

Tuition Fees

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27075 USD / year

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27075 USD / year

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27075 USD / year

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Why Earn Your Master’s or Advanced Certificate in Early Childhood and/or Early Childhood Special Education at Adelphi, Right Here in New York?

Programme Structure

Key information

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Credits

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English requirements

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Tuition Fees

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