Graduate Programs at Appalachian
Below is the list of all degree programs and graduate certificates offered by Appalachian. Follow the links to read more about the programs, and to read more about concentrations, program contacts, semesters open for admission, and application deadlines. If you cannot find what you are looking for, please use the contact link at the bottom of the page to request information.
Browse the List of Programs by General Category
Browse the List of Off Campus and Online Programs
LOCATION OF INSTRUCTION: Listed below are the typical locations of instruction for each program. "On campus" means that the program is offered in Boone on our main campus; "off campus" means face-to-face at a site in one of the other nearby towns in northwestern NC; "online" means very limited or no face-to-face requirements. To inquire further about which off-campus locations are currently active for an off-campus program, please check with the Distance Education office.
Master's Degree Programs
- Accounting MS (on campus)
- Appalachian Studies MA (on campus)
- Biology MS (on campus)
- Business Administration MBA (on and off campus)
- Child Development: Birth-Kindergarten MA (off campus)
- Clinical Health Psychology MA (on campus)
- Clinical Mental Health Counseling MA (on campus)
- College Student Development MA (on campus)
- Computer Science MS (on campus)
- Criminal Justice and Criminology MS (on and off campus)
- Curriculum Specialist MA (on and off campus)
- Educational Media MA:
- Elementary Education MA (on and off campus)
- Engineering Physics MS (on campus)
- English MA (on campus)
- Exercise Science MS (on campus)
- French - see Romance Languages
- Geography MA (on campus)
- Gerontology MA (online)
- Higher Education MA (on and off campus)
- History MA (on campus)
- History Education MA (off campus)
- Industrial - Organizational Psychology and HRM MA (on campus)
- Instructional Technology - see Educational Media (LES)
- Library Science MLS (online and off campus)
- Marriage and Family Therapy MA (on campus)
- Mathematics MA (on campus)
- Mathematics Education MA (off campus)
- Media Literacy, Media Production, New Media - see Educational Media (C&I)
- Middle Grades Education MA (on and off campus)
- Music Performance MM, Music Education MM, and Music Therapy MMT (on campus)
- Nutrition MS (on campus)
- Physics - see Engineering Physics
- Planning - see Geography
- Political Science MA (on campus)
- Professional School Counseling MA (on campus)
- Psychology, General Experimental MA - see also Clinical Health Psychology, I-O Psychology, School Psychology (on campus)
- Public Administration MPA (on and off campus)
- Reading Education MA (on and off campus)
- Romance Languages MA (on and off campus)
- School Administration MSA (off campus and online)
- School Counseling - see Professional School Counseling
- Social Work MSW (on and off campus)
- Spanish - see Romance Languages
- Special Education MA Degree (on and off campus)
- Speech-Language Pathology MS (on campus)
- Technology MS (on campus)
Specialist and Doctoral Degree Programs
- Educational Administration EdS Degree (off campus and online)
- Higher Education EdS Degree (on and off campus)
- School Psychology MA/SSP Degree (combined master's and specialist - on campus)
- Educational Leadership EdD Degree (on and off campus)
Graduate Certificate (Non-degree) Programs
- Addiction Counseling (on campus)
- Appalachian Studies (on campus)
- Educational Media: Web-based Distance Learning (online)
- Elementary Math Education (off campus)
- Expressive Arts Therapy (on campus)
- French (on campus)
- Gerontology (online)
- GIScience (on campus)
- Media Literacy (online)
- Planning (closed for applications)
- Reading Education (on campus)
- Rhetoric and Composition (on campus)
- Sociology (online)
- Spanish (on campus)
- Women's Studies (on campus)
