The Portfolio

Master’s students must complete a portfolio documenting their work and progress in the IB/M program. The expectations about specific items to be included in the portfolio are dictated by the students’ faculty advisors. Portfolio expectations should be discussed with advisees early in their program and should be a regular topic of discussion in advisor/advisee sessions.

Students should contact their advisors for information about what to include in and how to construct the portfolios. Near the end of the spring semester, students must make individual appointments to meet with their advisors to share their portfolios. Sharing a satisfactory portfolio with one’s advisor must occur before the advisor can sign the student’s paperwork indicating successful completion of the comprehensive exam. Students who do not meet the portfolio requirement will not graduate from the master’s year of the IB/M program and will not be eligible for certification.