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100% online MA Education

Apply by: 10 June 2025
To begin: 24 June 2025
    • 180 credits
    • Complete in as little as 14 months
Reach your potential as an educational specialist with the Keele difference – a 100% online MA from a university ranked in the top 10 in England for Education

This is Keele:

  • 100% online MA – 14 months full-time or 2 years part-time
  • Top 10 in England for Education*
  • Top 300 in the World for Education**
  • Britain's Best University, as ranked by students***
  • 80% of research 'world leading' or 'internationally excellent'****
  • £7,440 total fees with option to pay per module
  • Keele alumni discount available
*Complete University Guide, 2021
**Times Higher Education World Rankings, 2023
***No. 1 in the UK, Student Crowd University Awards, 2022
****Research Excellence Framework, 2021

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A Cutting Edge Online Education Master’s with a Difference

The 100% online MA Education from Keele University is an innovative course that has been designed for proactive and ambitious individuals who are looking for progression, promotion and leadership in key educational roles.

The Master’s programme is ideal for a wide range of educationalists who want to inspire and transform the prospects of others – including teachers, as well as those seeking a career in educational leadership and management, policy making and educational consultancy.

A flexible learning model created for a global audience of high performing educational professionals

This part-time course has been specifically designed with the demanding lives of full-time professionals and individuals with family responsibilities in mind. The flexible design of the course means that you can develop your own study schedule and access academic content at times that suit you. This enables you to study around full-time work and family commitments and means that you can avoid drastic life changes such as taking a potentially costly study break.

With the course being delivered entirely online, all teaching and studying can be completed without ever needing to visit campus, which makes it an excellent fit for working professionals, across the UK and around the world.

Within our carefully tailored online learning environment you will interact and collaborate with tutors and fellow educators from across the globe, in group learning activities and discussion groups via online forums. This provides you with a rare and invaluable opportunity to develop your global professional network.

Knowledge and skills taught include:

  • Creative practice
  • Inclusive education
  • Education and global citizenship
  • An interconnected view of education, employment and professional identity
  • International education in a globalised world
  • Reflective practice
  • Research design
  • Qualitative and quantitative research methodologies
  • Preparing and developing a dissertation

Study with a leading Education department at a University acclaimed for student satisfaction

Keele University was recognised as one of the top 10 universities in England for Education in the Complete University Guide 2021. Our Education department was also ranked Top 250 in the world, in the  Times Higher Education World Rankings 2021.

These accolades come down to excellence in teaching, research and student experience. In the latest Research Excellence Framework, 80% of our research was rated ‘world leading’ or ‘of international importance’.

Our credentials in developing a superb student experience are exemplified by our joint 1st ranking for course satisfaction – as rated by students – in the Guardian University rankings 2019.

Study a flexible online Education Master’s with a University ranked in the top 10 in England for Education

Top 10

in England for Education

(Complete University Guide 2021) Detail Badge

Top 300

in the world for Education

(Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023) Detail Badge

Top 10

for Student Experience

(Times Good University Guide, 2020) Detail Badge

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Britain's best university, as ranked by students

(StudentCrowd University Awards, 2022) Detail Badge