SJSU's M.A. in Child and Adolescent Development (ChAD) is designed for students who are passionate about studying development, from early childhood through emerging adulthood. The degree prepares graduates for a wide range of career paths, including early childhood education administration, parent educators and youth advocates, community college instruction, community programming and outreach, pediatric and public health professionals, program evaluation, and more! 

The Dept. of Urban & Regional Planning offers accredited graduate programs in Urban Planning, Geography, and Public Administration. Alumni from our programs go on to rewarding careers in transportation and land use planning, sustainability and climate action planning, city government, and non-profit organizations. 

Take your career to the next level by enrolling in the San José State University School of Information's 100% online programs. All courses are conducted in our interactive, award-winning online learning environment, so you can learn whenever and wherever works best for you! Best of all, you get to engage with expert faculty and a dynamic community of library professionals from around the world. Featured Programs: ALA-accredited Master of Library and Information Science Advanced Certificate in Digital Assets and Services Post-Master’s Certificate in Library and Information Science We also offer free webinars on a host of topics, including EDI, career development and leadership. Discover what Silicon Valley’s School of Information can do for your career and personal growth. Visit ischool.sjsu.edu. 

San José State University offers an interdisciplinary program intended to provide students with a strong intellectual analysis of diverse Chicana/o and Latina/o experiences along with skills to address real-world issues in Chicanx, Latinx and other communities. The curriculum is grounded in the interdisciplinary Chicana/o Studies tradition of pursuing carefully developed, culturally grounded solutions to community needs. Individual courses and programs are intended to bridge the worlds of theory, cultural analysis, and practice. Students build on a solid foundation of historical and cultural analyses and attempt to develop new approaches to long-standing social, economic, educational, political, and intellectual problems that face Chicanx, Latinx, and other communities. The CCS Graduate program at SJSU trains students to become leaders in a number of professional fields, including: teaching, social services, health care, and community service. We also prepare students for doctoral study in Chicana/o Studies, Ethnic Studies and other academic fields. 

The M.A. in Applied Anthropology is designed to train and empower students to build on their knowledge of cultural anthropology, physical anthropology, and archaeology to address real world problems. The program provides a structure through which students can develop as practitioners by working closely with faculty on projects that are often done in collaboration with outside organizations. Graduates of our program have secured positions in public, private, and non-profit organizations as researchers, designers, administrators, and program developers. The M.A. program is built around three broad sets of research skills: (1) anthropological methods for understanding practices, meanings, and artifacts of human groups and sociocultural systems, including organizations and communities, and how they operate in the regional environment (2) assessment and evaluation skills, emphasizing qualitative methods that complement quantitative methods; and (3) planning and designing programs, services, organizations, and exhibits. 

A Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice from CSU Stanislaus can accelerate your career to the next level. In addition to enhancing your qualifications for supervisory positions in law enforcement, investigations and corrections, a master’s degree in Criminal Justice can also qualify you to teach at the postsecondary level, or to conduct training for local, state, and federal criminal justice agencies. 

As the demand for psychology professionals remains steady, so too does the demand for qualified, accredited, hands-on, and multicultural-focused psychology education. At the California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP) at Alliant International University, our school of psychology is awarded with top accreditation and elite faculty members, helping to give our graduate students the best education possible. 

At the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS), the search for greater solutions to some of the most pressing global policy challenges of our time starts right here — from climate change to food security, democracy, migration, human rights, security and much more. At GPS, students learn from world-class professors while surrounded by a diverse body of students from all walks of life, creating a global, holistic classroom experience in our degree programs. And our San Diego location gives us the freedom to seek progress untethered from tradition and lean into the power of the Pacific Coast as a hub of innovation, diversity and proactive problem-solving. From here, you can make an impact anywhere. Learn more at gps.ucsd.edu. 

Why choose the UC Santa Cruz Politics Department for doctoral study? UC Santa Cruz offers a distinctive approach to the study of politics and the building of bridges among politics and other disciplines and topics. The study politics at UC Santa Cruz is  through historical, philosophical, cultural, conceptual, and other perspectives — in addition to the scientific approaches customary in the U.S. discipline of political science. We emphasize the study of politics in context. We tend to be skeptical of grand or formalistic theorizing that lies far removed from empirical realities or textual support. We put the substance of politics front and center. Methodological training, while important, is in the service of research, not an end in itself. We encourage interdisciplinary approaches to the study of politics. Our students often take seminars from and work with faculty in other departments and programs, including but not limited to those who are formally Affiliated Graduate Faculty. Graduate students also have the opportunity to develop research topics and work with advisors not only in the Social Sciences but also Arts, Humanities, Physical and Biological Sciences, and even Engineering. And we have built a strong record of placing Ph.D. graduates in jobs.