Today?s increasingly diverse, multi-lingual school system presents special challenges for educators. The UCR Education, Society, and Culture MA degree equips you with the insights, understanding, and analytic skills you need to become a teacher-leader in this exciting and rapidly changing environment. Through this master?s degree program you will engage in scholarly research in the racially, ethnically, linguistically and socioeconomically diverse schools of the inland Southern California region within which UC, Riverside, is located.

The Education, Society, and Culture master?s program is part of the university?s Graduate School of Education, which U.S. News and World Report recently ranked among the best schools of its kind in the state of California. Study with interdisciplinary, award winning faculty who approach issues of educational inequity through sociocultural and historical frameworks and methodologies.

This research-oriented graduate program can be completed in less than two years. After graduation, you will be ready to take the next step in your career as a teacher-leader or to continue your studies and research in a doctoral program.