Master of Arts in Community College Administration

Offered Online

The Master of Arts in Community College Administration program is designed for emerging community college faculty and staff leaders who wish to develop knowledge and skills needed to serve and advance in a variety of roles in the community or technical college system. The program focuses on three areas of study: community college fundamentals; administration, organization and leadership; and professionalism. The program emphasizes exposure to a breadth of community college and higher education administration issues, programs, and services.

Highlights of the Program

The MACCA curriculum will prepare students to demonstrate specific knowledge in the field of community college administration, including the skills and techniques necessary to enable them to:

• Identify, understand and adopt best-practice skills and models in community college organizational and leadership development, services for special populations, financial aid, policy and planning, admissions, marketing and promotion, evaluation, accountability and philosophy, learning skills development, counseling, finance, curriculum design, legal issues, and distance learning.
• Think critically and ethically about the purposes, design, functions and character of community college organizations and their service to society.
• Develop effective decision-making, leadership, management, and analytical skills.
• Examine the issues of governance in community colleges and institutional adaptation to the changing environment.

Through this program, emerging community college leaders are able to earn a master’s degree in a manner that is meaningful and educationally sound. Individual and group assignments combine textbook theory with real-world application. The program provides a balance of quantitative and qualitative studies.

Program Timetable and Structure

Courses are held in the evenings, over weekends or online for the convenience of students and are flexible enough to fit most schedules. Because the format of this program allows each student to complete the program at their own pace, there is not a standard timetable for completion. This program requires a minimum of 33 credit hours to complete.

Admission Requirements

Candidates for admission to the Master of Arts in Community College Administration program must meet the following criteria:

1. Submit official transcripts from all colleges attended demonstrating successful or pending completion of a baccalaureate degree from an accredited institution. Minimum cumulative GPA is a 2.7;
2. Submit an official copy of either the Miller Analogies Test (MAT) or the GRE (unless Career Admission Track applies). Minimum MAT score is a 390; minimum GRE scores are Verbal 147, Quantitative 147, and Analytical Writing 3.5;
3. If Career Admission Track applies, or if the applicant meets one of the other criteria for waiving the standardized test score, submit one letter of professional recommendation through the online application;
4. Submit a writing sample clearly articulating goals and life experiences that have impacted the student’s decision to pursue a graduate degree in Community College Administration;
5. Submit a CV or Resume;
6. Be available for an interview upon request.
7. The admissions committee determines admissions decisions based on the whole application and reserves the right to admit, provisionally admit, waitlist, or deny applicants on this policy.