Special Education

Create Accessible Learning Environments

At BU Wheelock, you’ll join a collaborative community of teachers, advocates, and researchers with a shared goal—to create equitable education opportunities for all students. 

  • Learn to support, instruct, and advocate for students with diverse needs
  • Options for all experience levels—veteran educators to aspiring teachers 
  • No GRE required
  • Scholarship opportunities—awarded to 60% of students in BU Wheelock

Customize Your Degree

Path to Licensure

Our special education programs offer tracks for students seeking an initial SPED teaching license or current teachers looking to add a SPED teaching license. We’ll help you every step of the way. BU Wheelock offers a full range of support for graduate students seeking teaching licensure through the Professional Preparation Office.

Lindsey Chapman smiling as show lectures

Create a Long-Term Impact with Support

BU Wheelock senior instructor and special education program director Lindsey Chapman guides students to challenging inequalities in the school system. “I focus on ideas that cut across both disability rights and justice,” Chapman says. Her class, Disability, Public Policy, and Education, raises important questions and helps you prepare to create a long-term impact.