Tuition, Fees and Scholarships

How much will the program cost?

Graduate students in the program take advantage of SMU's "Master Educator" rate. The tuition rate for the 2011-12 Academic Year is $487 per credit hour. The tuition rate for the 2012-2013 Academic Year will be $516 per credit hour.

There are additional fees for the following:

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Financial Aid

Students who are admitted to a degree program (M.Ed., M.Ed. with Certification, M.Ed. in Reading and Writing, or the M.B.E.) and who enroll for a minimum of 6 hours in any one term may be eligible to apply for federal financial aid. Applicants may submit forms to financial aid before being accepted into the program. Students interested in applying for Direct Loans from the federal government can submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) online at http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/. The deadline for the summer term is April 1, and the deadline for fall term is June 15.

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Scholarship Information

All graduate students who are registered for the academic year are eligible. We appreciate the generous private support of the donors who make these awards possible each year.

If you wish to be considered for a scholarship, please check the appropriate box on your admissions application. After acceptance into the program, scholarship recipients will be selected by committee based on each student's admissions essay and overall admissions application. If you are a current student, please send a brief email to teacher@smu.edu explaining which scholarship you wish to be considered for.

The Simmons School of Education and Human Development, Department of Teaching and Learning, is pleased to offer the following scholarships to students each year:

The John W. Hagey Endowed Scholarship Fund

The endowment for the Hagey Scholarship Fund was established from the estate of Mr. John W. Hagey to support teacher training in the Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development.

The Herrscher Family Endowed Fund In Education

The endowment for the Herrscher Scholarship Fund was established by the Hillcrest Foundation in honor of Anne P. Herrscher to support programs that train teachers to teach individuals with learning differences.

Annette Caldwell Simmons Scholarship

Annette Caldwell Simmons was born in Tyler, Texas. She earned a B.S. degree in elementary education from Southern Methodist University in 1957. After graduating, she taught second and third grade at Maple Lawn Elementary School in Dallas and at Clark Field, a U.S. air base in the Philippines.

The Simmons Scholars Program was created to identify highly qualified teachers for acceptance into or to continue studying in the Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development.

San Marcos Civic Foundation Scholarship

The San Marcos Civic Foundation Scholarship was established to train teachers interested in earning a Master’s in Reading and Writing.

Walker Merit Scholarship

The endowment for the Arthur and Ruth Walker Scholarship Fund came from Mrs. Margaret Wheeler, who established the endowment in 2000 in memory of her brother and sister, Arthur and Ruth Walker. The Walker children (Arthur, Ruth, and Margaret) grew up on a Texas cotton farm during the early part of the last century and attended school in a one-room schoolhouse. Theirs was the story of a pre-depression era family that struggled to survive during desperate times and succeeded despite the odds. Arthur Walker ultimately became a Distinguished Professor at a university in Virginia and an early innovator of the MBA curriculum, and Ruth Walker taught economics during the Depression. Margaret Wheeler made her money in real estate development in the 1960s.