Aurora University’s online Doctor of Education: Leadership in Higher Education Administration program is built for working professionals seeking to earn a doctorate degree without putting their career on hold. Learning in flexible, asynchronous courses taught by highly qualified faculty members with experience in the field, you’ll gain the expertise you need to elevate your career and advance to new levels of leadership.

The Ed.D. in Higher Education Leadership, Management, and Policy is designed to equip practitioners with a variety of theoretical and research-based administrative and supervisory skills for potential and practicing administrators in higher education institutions as well as state Department of Education settings. The program focuses on training informed leaders through the utilization of scholarly research and theoretical models, which are applied to experiential situations.

The Doctoral program in Executive Educational Leadership (EdD) is designed for individuals who already hold a master’s degree from an accredited institution and have demonstrated strong leadership skills in an educational setting. It is a selective program, designed to be completed with a residential cohort of approximately 20 individuals and an online cohort of students. The courses are offered in a fixed sequence and are designed to accommodate the working professional.

You’ll graduate from this 55-unit program in 3 years with an enhanced capacity to lead, inspire, and educate within K-12 educational settings. You’ll transform the schools and districts you serve. You’ll experience coursework taught and designed by current superintendents and faculty researchers, adding practical relevance to your studies. We’ll help you complete your degree through a streamlined, cohort-based program, with 16 in-person Saturdays each year, and a guided dissertation process embedded into the coursework.

The Doctorate in Leadership for the Advancement of Learning and Service in Higher Education (Ed.D. or Ph.D.) will prepare you to make significant contributions to your organization and will help you become a transformational leader in higher education.

The Ed. D. degree program of study is designed to give students a broad conceptual framework in leadership theory and research.

Marymount University’s Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership and Organizational Innovation program is a strategically designed educational experience aligned with best practices developed by national leaders with a focus on proven methods to generate, transform, and apply professional knowledge and leadership practices. Marymount University is accredited by the Southern Associations of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) to award doctoral and master’s degrees.

A 36-month program for educators to develop skills and strategies to become an effective educational leader.

The Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership program prepares PreK-12 leaders in various roles to create and sustain strong learning communities. Our EdD program is ideal for educational leaders who aspire to serve in dynamic leadership roles at public or private PreK-12 school sites and district or county offices of education. Students learn to integrate, synthesize and apply theories and practices that support research and development of national and global policy, and advance leadership and change initiatives throughout organizations. This cohort-based doctorate employs the practitioner-scholar model of training in which academics, experience, and research are conjoined. Through rigorous coursework and hands-on learning, students gain advanced knowledge in the theory and practice of leadership, education, policy, and many other concepts. With an emphasis on experiential learning, students have the opportunity to take two trips, one global and one domestic. This program culminates in a doctoral dissertation.

Our Doctor of Education in Leadership is a collaborative online program, interdisciplinary and globally conscious program for current and future leaders aspiring to use their influential voices to innovate and create sustainable, transformational change.

The online Doctorate of Education (Ed.D.) of Leadership and Higher Education is designed to provide the skills and experience required for success in the rapidly changing world of higher education administration. Completed in as little as 39 months, students in this program gain the knowledge, skills, and abilities to identify critical issues facing today’s higher education institutions and examine and define approaches to address those challenges creatively comprehensively.

The EdD program's mission in Educational Leadership is to enhance the knowledge, skills, and dispositions of candidates to allow them to become educational leaders who promote effective school improvement.

The Ed.D. in Educational Leadership is a doctoral degree designed for leaders throughout the state at all educational levels. Courses emphasizing leadership in the areas of philosophical/sociological development, institutional organization, curriculum/instruction, school improvement, research, and statistics are required in the program. Additional emphasis will be provided as a cognate of advanced courses in a career choice of the candidate. The program is a joint doctorate in Educational Leadership between A&M-Kingsville and A&M-Corpus Christi, and students may attend classes on both campuses. Professors from both universities may serve as instructors and advisers for participants in the program.

The Ed.D. program in Contemporary Curriculum Theory and Instruction: literacy provides students with a strong core in literacy, theory, research, and practice to cultivate scholarly and reflective practitioners prepared to promote culturally-responsive, effective literacy learning across diverse contexts.

The Doctor of Education (EdD) degree in Instructional Leadership prepares experienced educators to become effective practitioner leaders able to translate current research into policy and practice.