Few professionals are as crucial in empowering educators to address their students’ individual learning challenges as educational diagnosticians. Professionals in this role evaluate students with learning difficulties, identify their specific issues, and conduct educational and emotional assessments across different age groups. The data they yield creates a clear, comprehensive picture of students’ educational needs and emotional well-being that enables teachers to better support them.
If your goal is to become certified as an educational diagnostician, we want you to know that The University of Texas Permian Basin is here to support you with two CAEP-accredited online programs designed for different stages of your education and career. Our programs offer the exceptional quality you expect from a UT System institution at an affordable cost rivaled by few other accredited programs. Both include practicum courses that provide invaluable hands-on workplace experience.
Master of Arts in Special Education, Educational Diagnostician Track (36 credits)
If you hold a bachelor’s degree, this program will equip you with the graduate-level skills and credentials required to qualify for a broader range of jobs, including more advanced positions. Our MA curriculum incorporates courses that prepare you for a career as an impactful special education teacher and certification as an educational diagnostician. Finish your degree in as little as two years.
Educational Diagnostician Certification (21 credits)
Already completed your master’s degree? There’s no need to go for another. Our online Educational Diagnostician Certification program enables you to focus your studies on certification by taking all the educational diagnostician-specific courses of the MA degree with no additional courses required. Finish in as little as three semesters.