Apply to the Master of Arts in ESL Program

WHO CAN APPLY?

• People who have completed a licensure or certificate program from the Hamline University Second Language Teaching and Learning Program. There is a minimum 3.25 GPA requirement for graduate level coursework from all licensure or certificate programs.
• People who have completed a licensure or certificate program elsewhere. Please note that no more than 16 graduate credits may be transferred into the MAESL. Transfer credits must be approved by SLTL faculty, and will be evaluated on a case by case basis. There is a minimum 3.25 GPA requirement for graduate level coursework from the licensure or certificate program.
• If you are planning on completing the TEFL or Adult ESL certificates, or the K-12 Licensure strand at Hamline University, you should first apply to and complete the specified program before you apply to the MAESL.

• Complete an MAESL application.
       Apply online
       Download application form [PDF]

• Request two original letters of recommendation to be sent directly to the Office of Graduate Admission. Letters should reflect academic and professional experience or volunteer work.

• Submit an official sealed transcript of undergraduate and relevant graduate work from a regionally accredited college or university. Hamline licensure and TEFL program graduates do not need to resubmit transcripts. **You do not need to supply transcripts for courses taken at Hamline.
• Submit an academic paper dealing with a second language issue that shows that you can:
  • synthesize information from several sources; or
  • apply information from academic or research articles to your teaching or personal experience. Your paper may be one you have written for a class, but we suggest that you make revisions before you submit it. The paper must be your work alone; it can not be a group project. 
• MAESL students must have at least two years of high school or one year of college foreign language, or the equivalent. Foreign language study must be documented.

Application deadlines are rolling. Other required coursework may be taken at any time during the year. 

Passing scores on the PPST test (Minnesota standards); or a TOEFL score of:

107 for internet-based
253 for computer-based,
625 for paper-based.

A score of 7.5-8 on the IELTS is equivalent to these TOEFL scores.

APPLICANTS WITH FOREIGN CREDENTIALS

Official transcripts of all degree coursework or additional coursework

Sealed, certified copies of the original documents must be in English and certified by the Registrar's Office of the student's university.

If transcripts are not in English, students must send their academic documents (transcripts and diploma) to an expert Academic Credential Evaluator (found at www.naces.org) in the United States for a course-by-course evaluation. In such cases, the students are responsible to cover all fees of such evaluation as well as to make their own arrangements with the Credential Evaluation Company to send their documents directly to Hamline University. More information regarding this matter will be provided to those students who need to complete this evaluation process.