Earn an advanced degree that prepares you to serve students in rural school systems with the University of West Alabama's Doctor of Education in Rural Education. As the first fully online program of its kind, this four-year degree trains you to identify solutions to rural education challenges as you work toward your dissertation. Choose from five specialized tracks: counseling, higher education administration, organizational change and leadership, teacher leader and library media.

The Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Library and Information Science is available to librarians who are ABD or have two masters' degrees, one that is ALA accredited Library Science and one in another discipline, or the equivalent coursework.

Our Ph.D. in Library and Information Science empowers students to learn and analyze users' information needs — applying various tools and technologies to locate and evaluate information and organize, manage, and preserve information and materials, so it becomes an accessible source of knowledge.