Illinois Institute of Technology and Chicago Museum to Offer Master’s Degree

Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry is teaming up with the Illinois Institute of Technology to offer a master’s degree in science education to schoolteachers, the Chicago Tribune reports. The museum and the institute have been collaborating on credit courses since 2007. Science museums are educational institutions, but they rarely get involved in granting degrees. The American Museum of Natural History, in New York, was the first in the United States with a doctoral program, offering M.A.’s and Ph.D.’s in comparative biology, according to a 2006 article in The New York Times.