Take the Next Step in Your Career
The modern workplace is in a state of rapid and consistent evolution, creating a sharp increase in the demand for workforce training and professional development. Penn State’s online lifelong learning and adult education program is one of the most established and respected programs in the country, taught by nationally renowned faculty.
Important Update:Â Applicants are no longer required to submit GRE/GMAT test scores.
Graduate Degrees
The Lifelong Learning and Adult Education master’s program offers an option to customize your degree. Choose the Global Online and Distance Education option or the general Master of Education option. The online Doctor of Education program draws from several disciplines and lets you customize your learning with a wide range of areas of emphasis, including adult education.
Graduate Certificate
In addition to our online master’s program in adult education, Penn State World Campus offers a related online postbaccalaureate certificate program. The credits you earn in this certificate program may be applied toward the requirements for the Master of Education in Lifelong Learning and Adult Education, upon your acceptance into that program.
Act 48–Approved
Penn State is an Act 48–approved provider for Pennsylvania educators, so the courses for the Master of Education in Lifelong Learning and Adult Education may count toward your professional development hours.