Degree
Department
Overview
The Educational Innovation and Change track in the Education PhD program is designed for applicants who have experience as administrators, instructors and staff in education systems and want to pursue careers as transformative scholars and leaders. With this degree, you can be a change agent in education. A doctoral degree in this track will broaden the analytical skills necessary to contribute to the advancement of the field in various educational contexts through transformative research, administration and teaching. This multi-disciplinary program provides professionals with an opportunity to conduct research while understanding the modern challenges of, and discovering innovative approaches to, student success initiatives across the PreK-20 academic pipeline.
Program Details
The Educational Innovation and Change track in the Education PhD program requires 66 credit hours beyond the master’s degree. The curriculum includes 24 credit hours of core courses, 27 credit hours of specialization courses and 15 credit hours of dissertation.
Students can curate a program with a mixture of Higher Education, PreK-12 Educational Leadership, Career and Workforce Education, lifelong learning or other related fields. The students in this program are considered academic change agents interested in intensive study of the organizational and policy issues influencing contemporary American education.
Track prerequisites
- An earned master’s degree in a closely related field from a regionally accredited institution
- A minimum of one year full-time or two years part-time professional work experience
- Official, competitive GRE (Verbal, Quantitative and Written) score taken within the last five years
- Three letters of recommendation
- Résumé and goal statement
- Writing sample of a 10- to 20-page original paper on any topic