The liberal education our students receive at Ursinus, regardless of their major, provides them with essential skills that will help them excel in any activity—nuanced reasoning, clear writing, cogent argumentation, and experience encountering multiple competing views on important questions.
IntereSTed in Graduate school?
Graduate school and career options in education have included education policy and research; social justice work; education law; higher education; programs in special education, elementary education, or counseling; and teaching in private schools, foreign countries, programs such as Teach for America, museums and other institutions.
Recent examples:
- Economics and Education (Teacher’s College of Columbia University)
- Secondary School Counseling (Villanova University)
- School Psychology (University of Delaware and Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine)
- Integrated Elementary and Special Education (Wheelock College)
- Student Affairs in Higher Education (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
- Secondary Education (West Chester University)
- Subjects such as English and Chemistry, which they continue to teach at the K-12 or college level.
- Others have served as Teach for America corps members (from New York City to Mississippi to South Dakota)
- Fulbright teaching fellows in countries such as South Korea, Spain, and India
- Organizations such as the Children’s Literacy Initiative or the Center for Public Research and Leadership at Columbia Law School.