Applications to the Ph.D. program are accepted for the fall semester only. The deadline for materials requested below is December 1. All requested materials should be submitted to the Office of Graduate Admissions.

• Step 1: Complete and submit application materials

  Application materials available from:

  NYU Steinhardt's Office of Graduate Admissions
  82 Washington Square East, Third Floor
  New York, NY 10003
  212 998 5010

  Follow instructions in the package for submission of the application form, transcripts, financial aid and graduate assistantship/teaching fellowship applications, and Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores (if not taken within the prior 10-year period, exam must be re-taken).

  Three letters of recommendation should address the applicant's interests, skills, abilities and accomplishments relevant to the design, development and use of educational media and technology-based learning environments, and his/her ability, based on prior academic or professional experience, to pursue and complete graduate studies successfully. Letters may be written by former professors, faculty advisors, academic administrators, or employers knowledgable of the applicant's academic work or professional accomplishments.

  If completing our online application, you will subscribe your recommenders who will then receive instructions on how to submit their letter electronically. If submitting a paper-based application, please ask your recommenders to provide you with a letter of recommendation in a signed, sealed envelope which you will then submit with your other admissions materials to the Office of Graduate Admissions.

  Supplemental essay questions. In addition to the “Statement of Purpose” required in the application package, responses to the following essay questions are also required. Each response should be no more than one page, double-spaced, in length. Include these with online application materials, or submit them with other paper-based admissions materials to the Office of Graduate Admissions.

  • What are your professional goals?
  • What areas of knowledge and skills do you expect to develop while in the doctoral Program, and how will these be useful to your professional plans and goals?
  • What academic, personal or professional experiences have led to your interest in pursuing a doctorate in educational communication and technology? What considerations led to your decision?
  • Summarize the area of knowledge, set of issues or problems, and body of literature in the field of educational communication and technology or related fields with which you are most conversant.
  • In what areas do you have an interest in research and theory? In what content areas or for which audiences do you have an interest in designing educational media programs? What experiences led to these interests?
  • Describe your position on what is effective instruction, the relation of media and technology to instruction, and the theoretical or conceptual frameworks you find most powerful and useful to support your position.
  • Describe one or more significant academic or professional situations in which you have encountered the problem of improving learning or instruction. How did you identify and analyze the problem, and how did you or would you have solved it?
  • Describe one or two critical problems that, in your view, impede effective learning or instruction in a particular setting or type of institution. Outline briefly how you would approach research on these problems, including useful theoretical frameworks and methodology.
  • Describe your technology skills, e.g., skills in computer-based multimedia, web, or productivity tools, video, etc.

  Examples of published papers, chapters, and presentations on relevant topics, as well as research reports and original educational media projects, may also be submitted with paper-based admissions materials to the Office of Graduate Admissions or Professor Jan Plass, Coordinator of the Doctoral Program, Program in Educational Communication and Technology, 239 Greene Street, Suite 300, New York, NY 10003.

• Step 2: Admissions Interview

  We will contact those applicants who appear most suited for the ECT PhD program to schedule an admissions interview in February/March.

• Step 3: Acceptance Announcements

  Acceptances are announced in February. Accepted students are then invited to orientation and registration sessions for new students.