The Urban Education program with Elementary Education Concentration is committed to developing a generation of teachers who use their own diverse cultural, linguistic and economic backgrounds to improve urban schools and empower children and youth. Our students, as teacher candidates, benefit from working with some of the best education faculty in the world and gain real-world experience partnered with carefully-selected mentor teachers in the communities and schools of Chicago. Students spend all fieldwork based semesters working in predominantly African American and Latino classrooms to cultivate unique skill sets for success in urban school classrooms.
The extensive in-school immersion, with over 1000 hours of fieldwork experiences, is the hallmark of the program and creates teachers ready to lead in classrooms from day one. Students begin their in-school work junior year.
?5th Year Option in Special Education
Bilingual and English as a Second Language (ESL) Endorsement
?Middle School Endorsement
September 2025
College of Education
1040 W. Harrison St.,
ETMSW, MC 147,
CHICAGO,
Illinois,
60607, United States
High school graduates who have never attended another college or university must submit evidence of graduation from an accredited high school or submit passing scores on the General Educational Development (GED) test.
They must have obtained TOEFL iBT - Total Score 80; IELTS Overall Score - 6.5 with a score of subsection minimum as follows: listening 6, writing 6, reading 6, and speaking 6, PTE with a score of 54 (with subsection minimum as follows: listening 47, writing 56, reading 51, and speaking 53).
Application deadline: Fall - First Year Early Action - November 1st, First Year Regular Decision - February 1st. Spring - First Year Regular Decision - October 1st.
*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.
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