Early Childhood General Education Advanced Standing Master’s Degree Program (MSEd)

Are you an experienced early childhood teacher who is seeking certification? Join Bank Street’s collaborative and supportive educational community to earn your master’s degree through our Early Childhood General Education Advanced Standing Program.

Find out more about our program, which offers a reduced credit load and a sizable scholarship opportunity for accepted students, along with other financial aid incentives.

About the Advanced Standing Master’s Degree for Early Childhood Educators

In this accelerated, competency-based program, you’ll advance your understanding of human development and early learning in our youngest students through coursework, observation, and hands-on application. You’ll work with your cohort and a Bank Street faculty advisor to gain learning techniques that incorporate play, social interaction, sensory experiences, and engagement with the world.

  • Infant and family development starts with joyful activitiesMaintain your current teaching position while joining a cohort of other teachers
  • Receive up to six transfer credits for the required three+ years of work experience and complete this 30-credit program with 24 credits in just 16 months
  • Connect to a network of caring and invested peers and faculty and become a confident and effective change agent who can make a difference from the start 

This program is designed for current lead teachers working with children from birth through second grade in publicly funded programs. Applicants should have at least three years of teaching experience.

Our Approach

  • We’re for educators who want to spend every day face to face with the future.

    Bank Street holds a unique and highly regarded place in the world of education. We were trailblazers when we were founded in 1916—and our ideas, which were once radical, are widely practiced and accepted today. If you want to shape the future of education, this is where you start.
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  • We're for democracy and equity.

    Our commitment to democracy and social justice is at the heart of our innovative pedagogy and desire to help all learners, both children and adults, actively make sense of the world. Equity and equality are always in a Bank Street educator’s mind—we meet students “where they are” in their learning with strengths-based activities and socially, emotionally, and culturally appropriate support.
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  • We're for sharing good ideas.

    For a small institution, our reach is broad. Our mix of graduate and continuing education coursework, research programs, and professional partnerships with school districts across the country aims to expand and improve educational opportunities for all students.
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Financial Aid

At Bank Street, we believe education is an investment that will change your life—and the lives of the students you’ll work with. We’ll help you make it possible. Students who are accepted into our Early Childhood General Education Advanced Standing Master’s Degree Program receive a scholarship that covers over 50% of tuition, and they are eligible to apply for federal loans by filling out the FAFSA. 

For more information, please contact Financial Aid at finaid@bankstreet.edu or Graduate Admissions at gradadmissions@bankstreet.edu.

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Why Bank Street?

Early Childhood Experts

Bank Street has deep expertise and a rich portfolio of work in the early childhood field, which builds from over a century of intellectual and practical contributions that have advanced policy and practice.

Prepared for the Long Run

Bank Street is proud that 87% of its graduates remain in the field of education and 87% feel more confident in their specialty than comparison professionals.

A National Reputation

Our graduates are highly regarded by schools, educational organizations, and other places of learning across the country. A degree from Bank Street is a transformative investment in your values and ambitions, helping you stand out as a forward-thinking educator and leader who is confident, well-prepared, and ready to thrive. 

Meet our alumni
Small moments of observing make me a better teacher and a better human—to just pause and observe things sometimes and not be so quick to talk or pass judgment. I now use observation lessons regularly with my students. It helps me to ‘meet them where they are,’ which is an important part of Bank Street’s methods.
Keyona Morrison - Early Childhood General Education Advanced Standing Program '23
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