SCHOLARLY COMMUNITY:Doctoral and master's degree students take classes together and learn from faculty mentors, forming a community of scholars who take new approaches to studying language, writing, and literature.
An Advanced Degree in English Opens Doors
IUP's long-standing and internationally recognized graduate programs in English are designed to further your career as an English teacher, writer, journalist, marketer, or publisher; engage your passion for English; and enhance your ability to think and communicate critically.
Our graduate programs offer well-published and experienced faculty, a culturally diverse population of students, a curriculum that supports teacher-scholars, and high rates of completion.
MA in English: Composition and Literature
Learn how to teach literature and composition.
MA in English: Literature
Further your expertise or prepare for a PhD.
PhD in English: Composition and Applied Linguistics
Enhance your skills as an English teacher of writing and language.
PhD in English: Literature and Criticism
Develop your skills as a literary scholar and critic and prepare to teach at the university level.
Summers and Flexible Enrollment, Literature and Criticism, PhD
Take advantage of our flexible enrollment options, including summers-only and full-year enrollment.
English 7-12 Teaching Certificate, Post-Baccalaureate
Add teaching certification to your bachelor's degree in as little as one calendar year or maximize your career options by completing this certificate while earning your master's degree.
The IUP difference
Programs with a high rate of graduates' career success. A survey by the Modern Language Association found the IUP doctoral programs in English to be among the most successful in advancing graduates' careers.
Summers-only option. Designed with working teachers in mind, our summers-only options enable you to choose from courses offered during the summer, so you can reach your goals at a pace that makes sense for your professional life.
English faculty. More than 50 full-time professors, all with doctoral degrees from the world's leading universities bring a high level of scholarship and enthusiasm to their teaching. As a result, students receive an extraordinary breadth of expertise from a group of scholars who are recognized nationally and internationally as authorities in their specialties.
English Graduate Organization. Share your ideas, concerns, and graduate experience with your peers. The English Graduate Organization (EGO) supports students in the English graduate programs through social events, workshops, and conferences.
Guided to Become a Teacher Scholar
"It's very fulfilling in many respects. You get to work with professors with the same interests as you. They are guides and mentors, especially with research. It's not a power dynamic at all with them. They look at us as future colleagues. Their goal is to produce teacher scholars."
Nick Katsiadas, PhD in Literature and Criticism Class of 2018