The Mico University College

The Executive Master of Arts Degree in Educational Management will dynamically change the educational management leadership landscape. It provides human, technical, administrative and organizational values and skills necessary for first-rate performance. The curriculum is structured to provide incremental exposure to the foundation and advanced courses integrated around core themes of Management, Leadership, Creativity, and Innovation. Participants must first complete Foundational courses before core courses are pursued.

The Executive Masters Degree in Educational Management offered, will dynamically change the educational management leadership landscape of Jamaica, the Caribbean, and international communities. It provides human, technical administrative and organizational skills and values necessary for first-rate performance. The curriculum is structured to provide incremental exposure to the foundation and advanced courses integrated around core themes of Management, Leadership Creativity, and Innovation. A wide variety of learning methods is used for EMEM from formal lectures, case study analysis, seminars and class presentations. The programme requires extensive private study and research inquiry on the part of the students. Study and learning in the EMEM are broadly interactive processes with emphasis on the value student participation brings to the classroom. The strategy is to encourage and facilitate both effective self-reflection and the sharing of ideas among participants.... [-]

The Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program targets persons with a Bachelor’s degree in varied areas and cover a period of five (5) semesters including summer sessions. The philosophy of the program is to empower educators for professional practice and responsible leadership through a rich, varied and dynamic curriculum. It further allows the experience to integrate content across various fields of study relating theory to practice.

The Master of Arts in Teaching program seeks to empower educators for professional practice and responsible leadership through a rich, varied and dynamic curriculum and provides a higher degree program that will enable the clientele to engage in continued research activities that contribute to sustainable development.... [-]

The program is designed to equip educators and other professionals with core knowledge and specialized skills for addressing the needs of students with exceptionalities. It will also empower educators for professional practice and responsible leadership. The program addresses a wide range of learning needs, including severe disabilities. It targets persons with a Bachelor’s degree and offers training in general special education that allows the selection of an elective from Specific Learning Disabilities, Severe Disabilities, School Counselling, and Social Work, Family and Human Development, Educational Evaluation and Interventions and Administration and Supervision.... [-]

The Master of Science in Counselling and Social Work is designed to equip society with skills to respond to the needs of the school community and society as a whole. In response to social changes that impact the lives of students, this programme prepares professionals who will focus on a broad range of services to an increasingly diverse group of stakeholders. The programme targets persons with a Bachelor’s Degree in social and behavioural studies and covers two (2) years, including summer sessions.

In order to prepare students, parents and the society to meet and effectively deal with the existing societal challenges, The Mico University College has undertaken to train change agents. This programme intends to prepare individuals to be school counsellors and social agents who will be well informed and motivated.... [-]