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[bardolf]

Actually, I've posted this question before, but a year ago; I did another contract in the meantime.

Now here's the bottom line: I'm nearing 50 years of age, I'm quite clever, I have a Bachelor's degree in Education with an English major and a French minor with a concentration in middle-and-high-school; I have some years of experience teaching English to newcomers in my native country as well as to both private and public school pupils in Korea. Now I want to acquire a Master's degree of some sort. However:

I absolutely refuse to consider any online or "distance-learning" program. I won't bore you with the reasons, and I don't care to discuss them. I will only consider FULL-TIME ON-CAMPUS PROGRAMS.

Furthermore, I would like if at all possible to complete the whole magilla in a single year. I don't need qualifications from the most prestigious institution on the block; I just need something affordable and of sufficient respectability to get me a respectable job in, say, a Mexican university.

What sort of things would suit me these days? I'll do two years if I absolutely have to, for the sake of a respectable degree; but if at all possible, I'd like to do the thing in a single year, considering I have enough savings to study full time without needing to work at all.

[Justin Trullinger]

The School for INternational Training, Brattleboro Vermont.

It's a year program- and well thought of to boot.


Justin

[spiral78]

Some highly reputable British unis offer 1-year on-campus MAs in TESL/TEFL and applied linguistics.

I can vouch for the University of Birmingham (my own MA is from them), Surrey, Leicester, and Edinburgh (I have friends who have done these programs).

[Orpheus]

If you're really willing to work your ass off, I'd say that most 30-credit MA programs could be done in a year (maybe 1 1/2, considering time for the thesis). That's 15 credits/semester of graduate-level work, but you won't have time for a job or free time; I also think you'd have to get advisor approval to take more than 12 credits at most schools. A couple of my fellow students in the MTESOL program have finished in a year, so I know it can be done, but I wouldn't personally subject myself to that.

[GambateBingBangBOOM]

Most of the well-known distance masters in English language teaching are from universities that offer them in ON-CAMPUS delivery modes as well as by distance. If you are studying full-time, then I think a lot of them in Australia are single year programs (especially if you have a four-year degree)..


University of New England � MA in Applied Linguistics
University of Southern Queensland - MA in TESOL or Applied Linguistics
Macquarie University � MA in Applied Linguistics
University of Tasmania � Med in TESOL
Monash University � MA in Applied Linguistics
Victoria University of Wellington - MA in TESOL or Applied Linguistics
University of Auckland - MTESOL
Deakin University- MTESOL


And probably a lot of the ones in the UK as well,


University of Birmingham � MA in TEFL or Applied Linguistics
University of Manchester � MA in TESOL
University of Surrey � MA in Linguistics (TESOL) or MA in ELT Management
University of Leicester - MA in TESOL or Applied Linguistics
University of York � MA in TEYL (Teaching English to Young Learners)
Aston University � MSc in TESOL
Reading University � MA in ELT
Oxford Brookes University � MA in TESOL
University of Dundee � MLitt in ELT
University of London � MA in TESOL
University of Nottingham - MA in Applied Linguistics and ELT
University of London - MA in TESOL

[naturegirl321]

Or the Monterey one in CA, can't remember the exact name.