Both Non-Licensure Track 1 and Licensure Track 2 offer thesis and non-thesis options and require students to submit a written comprehensive examination. In addition, students completing theses must sit for an oral examination of their theses.

Non-Licensure Track 1 concentrations are art education; cultural studies of education foundations; education of the deaf and hard of hearing; elementary education; English education; literacy education; mathematics education; science education; science education (informal education); science, technology, engineering, and mathematics; social science education; special education; teaching and learning and world language/ESL education.