Master’s Programs Career Outcomes

Peabody’s master’s programs prepare students to achieve in great ways. Just some of our recent success stories include:

• Joshua Goldman, M.Ed.’02, elementary education, created the Succeeding with Reading program for at-risk students in St. Louis. 
• Amanda Peltz, M.Ed.’06, community development action, is executive director of the Autism Society of Middle Tennessee, serving 4,000 families.
• Sarah Lawton Rogers, M.Ed.’05, organizational leadership, received a position with Deloitte Counsulting, in Irving, Texas.
• Elizabeth Melnikoff, M.Ed.’05, child studies, is a child life specialist at the Harvard Joslin Diabetes Center, in Boston, Mass.
• Erika Andersen, M.Ed.’00, special education with emphasis in visual disabilities. She is a clinical low vision specialist and teacher of students with visual impairments at The University of Houston, College of Optometry. Since gaining her M.Ed., she has also added certification as a certified low vision therapist.
• Julie Heinitsh, M.Ed.’02, higher education administration, is assistant vice chancellor for development at the University of North Carolina-Asheville.

Licensure and Certification

• In recent years our teacher licensure graduates have gone to teach in 45 states and nearly 30 foreign countries.
• Teacher licensure is available in elementary, secondary and special education.
• Our major in Human Development Counseling prepares graduates for licensure as a school counselors or certification as a Licensed Professional Counselor (with additional coursework).

“I’m working in the Special Ed Department on a research project that deals with school ed support for students at the high school level. When we go to conferences, we’re finding that our project is one of the few in the country that deal with this subject.” – E. Jemma Robertson, M.Ed. ’06, SPED