Center for STEM Education

The Center for STEM Education, established in 1964 at the University of Southern Mississippi, has served almost 1500 graduate students in mathematics and science education. Our graduate degree programs currently serve 40 masters and doctoral level students. We stimulate, develop, and support interdisciplinary STEM education research initiatives both on and off campus. And we design and provide STEM Education outreach activities for the region. The Center for STEM Education serves three main missions: (1) ACADEMIC PROGRAMS: We offer STEM Education Certificate, Masters and Doctoral programs with content areas including mathematics, biology, chemistry, marine science, polymers, computer science, and more. Students may pursue research focused on any area of human development in STEM learning, in formal or informal settings, and at any level - Elementary, Secondary, Post-Secondary. Hybrid programming provided both in-person and online offers flexibility for our full-time and part-tim...