Center for Doctoral Studies

Applications are currently open for the Summer 2025 Cohort

  • Early decision application deadline: December 1, 2024 
  • Regular admission application deadline:  March 1, 2025 

Earn Your Ed.D. Online

  • Earning your Ed.D. while working full-time
  • Begins in the summer

Our program is designed to equip education leaders with the knowledge, skills and experiences you will need as practitioners.
The program differentiates itself by being:

  • Research-based
  • Practitioner-driven
  • Transformative
  • Reflective
  • Innovative
  • Accessible

In this program, you will engage in cutting-edge research designed to make the largest possible impact for global good in education. Our fully online doctoral program in educational leadership provides a quality academic experience while meeting your needs, those of full-time working professionals.

Member Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate

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The Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED) includes over 130 colleges and schools of education, which have committed resources to work together to undertake a critical examination of the doctorate in education (EdD) through dialog, experimentation, critical feedback and evaluation.