Higher Education and Student Affairs Administration (HESA) M.Ed.

Type of Degree

M.Ed.

School or College

College of Education and Social Services

Area of Study

Education and community

Program Format

On-campus, Full-time, Part-time

Credit hours to graduate

36 credits

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Among the top graduate programs in the country preparing higher education administrators and student affairs professionals to collaboratively transform higher education.

Program Overview

HESA students, faculty, alumni and friends together in front of the UVM Alumni House.

We welcome full-time and part-time students with various levels of experience and backgrounds. We enroll a relatively small cohort each year to promote strong and enduring relationships with fellow colleagues, award-winning faculty, and campus partners.

Committed to the future of higher education, UVM HESA engages students in an unparalleled learning experience. We welcome full-time and part-time students with diverse backgrounds and professional experiences into an invigorating theory-to-practice community. The UVM HESA experience promotes strong and enduring relationships with fellow colleagues, award-winning faculty, and campus partners.

Our Mission and Core Values

We develop practitioner scholars through academic and professional preparation whose commitment to reflection and social justice will transform higher education and student affairs in the spirit of The Vermont Connection.

Academic and Professional Preparation: Through partnerships between faculty and student affairs professionals, we promote excellence through academic and professional rigor. We cultivate the knowledge and skills necessary for success in the profession through the synergy between classroom and experiential learning as conceptualized by philosopher and UVM alumnus John Dewey.

Social Justice: We are committed to pursuing social justice as both a process and a goal to dismantle individual, institutional, and societal oppression. Grounded in the ethos of HESA, UVM, and the profession, we strive to transform student affairs for more equitable and inclusive opportunities in higher education.

Reflection: We foster reflection of self, others, and contexts as a critical component of growth in professional practice. Through critical consciousness we strive to improve higher education and student affairs with an aim toward promoting individual, institutional, and societal change.

The Vermont Connection is a collegial network of former and current students, faculty, and student affairs professionals with the shared vision of uplifting community through relationships. The spirit of The Vermont Connection weaves together the history, present, and future of UVM HESA.