Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership
Tarleton State University
Key Information
Campus location
Stephenville, USA
Languages
English
Study format
Distance Learning
Duration
3 years
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
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Application deadline
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Earliest start date
Sep 2024
* tuition depends on if student decides to take 2 or 1 class every 8 weeks
Scholarships
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Introduction
*Transitioning to Online Learning pending THECB approval
Through the Dennis P. McCabe Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership, you’ll graduate from Tarleton as a scholar-practitioner leader. You will be well-equipped to apply theory, professional knowledge and practice in transforming educational organizations, guiding change and addressing problems of practice through scholarship and systematic methodologies.
Designed to meet the schedules of full-time professionals, our three-year, cohort EdD degree program for all levels of education offers a relevant, approachable and affordable education doctorate with online components. Through theory and practice, we prepare you to improve education by engaging multiple and diverse perspectives and building leadership capacity in yourself and others.
Choose from three concentrations:
- EC–12 Education Leadership
- Educational Technology Leadership
- Higher Education Leadership
You can also earn a Superintendent Certification or Principal Certification to enhance your credentials and further specialize your education doctorate.
What is Educational Leadership?
At Tarleton, our Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership program prepares educational professionals for collaborative leadership in an ever advancing and rapidly changing field. This is a clear pathway in how to become a school district superintendent, higher education leader or other educational administrator.
We focus on the scholar-practitioner, who combines professional knowledge and skills with practical wisdom to solve problems of practice. Problems of practice are recurring, specific issues in a certain context of a professional practitioner’s work. Scholar-practitioners use practical research and applied theories as tools for change to potentially improve understanding, experience and outcomes.
Why Study Educational Leadership?
Unlike many Doctor of Education leadership degree programs, our EdD program focuses on helping leaders improve their organizations, which makes it particularly relevant to their current and future work.
Share your passion in a collaborative learning environment
Following a doctoral cohort model with face-to-face and online components, you’ll interact with a local cohort in both concentrations and connect with graduate students in the same concentration but at other locations. This enriches the learning experience while offering networking and professional development opportunities.
Earn a doctorate designed for experienced, working professionals
Our EdD degree program offers a combination of face-to-face and online course work to accommodate full-time working professionals. New cohorts begin each summer. Courses feature online and face-to-face interactions and are scheduled in the evenings and on weekends.
Gain additional perspective through study away or study abroad
Study away in Washington, DC, with the DC Institute, where you can experience educational policymaking and governance processes. Study abroad in a variety of countries, where you can compare international educational systems with those in the United States.
Make an impact with graduate-level research
Through dissertation work and other independent research opportunities, you can apply your research in your work and may have opportunities to share your results with colleagues at academic and professional conferences such as the TASA Midwinter Conference or the CPED consortium convenings.
Accreditations
- Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC)
Career Opportunities
What Can You Do With Your Doctoral Degree in Educational Leadership?
The leadership and critical-thinking skills you’ll gain through our Doctor of Education leadership degree program are relevant, applicable and necessary to improve educational organizations now and in the future. For many of our graduate students, this path is how to become a school district superintendent, higher education leader or administrator in education.
Working for schools, independent school districts, county colleges, public universities, regional or state organizations and more, our graduates take on a variety of educational leadership roles, from curriculum coordinator and executive director to superintendent and higher education administrator.
Curriculum
What Classes Will You Take as a Educational Leadership Graduate Student?
The doctoral dissertation in practice is embedded in the curriculum and involves an in-depth study that impacts a complex problem of practice. Other course topics include the scholar-practitioner leader, investigating problems of practice in educational leadership and educational equity and identity.