EdD in Higher Education Administration

Our EdD is a cohort degree that focuses on issues of research utilization to inform professional practice. You must currently have a higher education professional position or corporate education position with significant responsibility to be considered eligible. This EdD is designed to meet the increasing need for visionary and entrepreneurial leaders in community colleges, four-year colleges and universities, corporate-sponsored education, and governmental agencies. The objectives of the EdD include providing:Meaningful learning opportunities for employed professionals to earn a terminal degree in an integrated curriculum with immediate applicability to their professional settingsA coherent and flexible combination of theory, skills development, research, and problem solving, and a culminating project that will clearly add value to and enhance the knowledge of professional settingsCommon learning experiences in leadership, organizations, policy, and applied research while concurrently offering the opportunity for study directly related to practice settings