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Ou online doctor of education in education administration, get started, program overview.

This program equips graduates with advanced knowledge of educational leadership theories, emphasizing practical application in solving real-world challenges. It focuses on honing decision-making and problem-solving skills for complex educational settings, along with organizational management and leadership competencies, covering areas like human resources and financial management.

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Why earn your ed.d. degree online from ou.

Craft a personalized doctoral experience to align with your career goals, gain skills and expertise in either Higher Education Leadership or PK-12 Leadership.

Gain access to the esteemed Sooner Alumni Network, fostering unique networking opportunities and valuable career connections.

Study from anywhere with synchronous and asynchronous content, catering to working professionals seeking educational advancement while juggling work, family, and other commitments.

OU’s program, accredited by CAEP, stands as the state’s flagship, ensuring a superior quality doctoral degree.

Admissions Requirements

Submit undergraduate transcripts for your conferred bachelor’s and master’s degree.

In this 36-month program, students complete a Problem of Practice Dissertation through their coursework. Please propose a problem of practice that you are considering for your dissertation in the program (600-750 words). Include the following components in your statement:

• Background on the setting (e.g., school district, higher education institution, or non-profit organization)
• Description of the problem of the practice
• Importance of your problem of practice

It is understood that your dissertation topic/interests may change, so you are not locked into this proposal if you are accepted into the program.

Students should have earned a conferred master’s degree. No minimum years of experience is required.

Earn an online Ed.D. at the University of Oklahoma. Develop ethical leadership, cultural competence, and reflective practice. Our interdisciplinary faculty ensures practical skills aligned with current trends and employer needs for immediate career application.  

Program of Study - Educational Leadership Concentration Courses

Credits – 3

Prerequisite: graduate standing.

The course is intended to prepare educational leaders who value and are committed to educating all students to become successful adults. Included is a detailed analysis of the role of vision and visionary leadership in educational organizations. Both scholarly literature and best practices concerning visionary leadership in education underlay course activities and discussions.

Strategic planning enables a district or school to shape and guide its overall educational objectives. Through effective strategic planning an educational organization creates a framework for developing, adapting and aligning organizational vision, mission and goals to achieve and sustain its desired educational outcomes. A critical element of the planning process is financial planning, in which the organization’s goals are aligned with organizational resources. Course focuses on the leadership competencies necessary to formulate, execute and monitor the strategic planning for an educational organization based on research-based analytical techniques and models. Includes an examination for school district risk management.

Focuses on instructional leadership and its emphasis on competencies necessary for leadership and management of school districts. The class draws from research, public policy and educational practices related to curriculum, instruction, assessment, strategic planning, and professional growth plans. Will enable school district administrators to plan for the integration of technology in curriculum implementation, instructional strategies, and evaluation/assessment. (Sp)

The purpose of this course is to introduce beginning doctoral students to the concept and process of research. Included are issues related to the role of philosophical frameworks, theory, research conceptualization, scholarly writing, and rudimentary research methods.

Designed to provide advanced graduate students with research skills required of effective executive educational leaders. This course will provide students with the analytical tools necessary to become effective, critical consumers of educational research, and to enable potential educational leaders to oversee and supervise staff in the preparation, development, and dissemination of evaluative research.

Credits – 2-4

Prerequisite: master’s degree, 24 hours of education, permission of instructor. May be repeated with change of subject matter; maximum credit twelve hours. Enrollment limited to students who hold the master’s degree.

Introduces graduate students to concepts, methods, and issues in qualitative research as it is used in educational settings. Draws attention to epistemological and ethical concerns in social science and to strategic and logistical issues in the conduct of field research. Both positivist and interpretive approaches to the use of qualitative methods will be explored. Concept and theory building, strategies and techniques, and discussions of different issues of reliability and validity in the use of qualitative data will be emphasized.

Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructor.

Examines the field of intra/interpersonal relationships in the context of educational organizations and their constituent communities; topics include authenticity, organizational communication, leader behavior, group dynamics, and conflict management.

Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of instructor.

This course builds knowledge and competencies on theory based evaluation science through a review of evaluation approaches and theoretical paradigms, evaluation components, terms, and methods; and endemic issues and challenges in conducting evaluation in the social sciences.

Enables students to understand the legal complexities involved in identifying and providing educational services to students with special needs.

Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructor

An introduction to analytical techniques applicable to the development of education policy. Includes consideration of decision theory and its application to policy making. Social, political, economic and multicultural factors in the organization and its environment will be explored as contexts within which educational policy is established.

Credits – 2-6

Prerequisite: written permission of the instructor.

May be repeated; maximum credit 12 hours. Variable as to title and subject profession. An advanced internship for post-master’s level students only. The object of the internship is to cultivate within the student a high degree of proficiency and professional independence. Field supervision is by a practitioner whose credentials are equal to those of the graduate faculty.

Prerequisites: graduate standing and EACS 6023, 6713, and 6970.

The course is intended to help provide advanced graduate students with necessary analytical skills to become effective consumers of research, and to produce an effective doctoral dissertation. The course focuses on skills related to formulation of research problems, developing research proposals, collection, analysis and interpretation of data.

Doctoral Credits – 2-6

Prerequisite: Graduate standing; majors only.

This seminar is designed for advanced PhD students/candidates and is a formal venue for developing a sample dissertation prospectus as a starting point to work from and further develop with the student’s dissertation chair and committee.

Credits – 2

Prerequisite: Graduate standing; May be repeated; maximum credit 12 hours.

This course is designed to support doctoral students post-prospectus defense, during data collection, analysis, and the writing of their dissertation. As such, the course is run as a seminar in which students develop and progress their individual research projects. Particular attention is spent on data analysis processes and how to move from analysis toward the written dissertation.

Credits – 2-16 hours

Prerequisite: Graduate standing and permission of instructor; may be repeated. Directed research culminating in the completion of the doctoral dissertation. (F, Sp, Su)

Program of Study - Higher Education Concentration Courses

Prerequisite: graduate standing. The course is intended to prepare educational leaders who value and are committed to educating all students to become successful adults. Included is a detailed analysis of the role of vision and visionary leadership in educational organizations. Both scholarly literature and best practices concerning visionary leadership in education underlay course activities and discussions.

Prerequisite: graduate standing. Strategic planning enables a district or school to shape and guide its overall educational objectives. Through effective strategic planning an educational organization creates a framework for developing, adapting and aligning organizational vision, mission and goals to achieve and sustain its desired educational outcomes. A critical element of the planning process is financial planning, in which the organization’s goals are aligned with organizational resources. Course focuses on the leadership competencies necessary to formulate, execute and monitor the strategic planning for an educational organization based on research-based analytical techniques and models. Includes an examination for school district risk management.

Prerequisite: graduate standing. Organization and administration of adult and higher education from legislative, legal, structural-functional, power, political, bureaucratic and social perspectives. Topics considered include: governance, central office organization, administrative position analysis, faculty organization, faculty participation in policy formation and decision making, academic freedom, goals analysis, budgetary policies and methods, and decision strategies.

Prerequisite: graduate standing. The purpose of this course is to introduce beginning doctoral students to the concept and process of research. Included are issues related to the role of philosophical frameworks, theory, research conceptualization, scholarly writing, and rudimentary research methods.

Prerequisite: graduate standing. Designed to provide advanced graduate students with research skills required of effective executive educational leaders. This course will provide students with the analytical tools necessary to become effective, critical consumers of educational research, and to enable potential educational leaders to oversee and supervise staff in the preparation, development, and dissemination of evaluative research.

Prerequisite: master’s degree, 24 hours of education, permission of instructor. May be repeated with change of subject matter; maximum credit twelve hours. Enrollment limited to students who hold the master’s degree.

Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Designed to expose students to a variety of educational theories as well as how research uses and engages theory. In addition, a primary objective of this course is for students to understand prominent theories in educational research and how they may utilize theory to evaluate programs, design studies, and create learning environments that support students and educational institutions.

Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of instructor. This course builds knowledge and competencies on theory-based evaluation science through a review of evaluation approaches and theoretical paradigms, evaluation components, terms, and methods; and endemic issues and challenges in conducting evaluation in the social sciences.

Prerequisite: graduate standing, 5693. Designed to help enhance the competencies of school district administrators in the area of educational technology leadership. Focuses on technology leadership (at the central office level), rather than technology user skills. Intended for district level leaders (such as superintendents) who are not technology specialists (e.g., the course is not intended for district level technology directors or coordinators).

Prerequisite: graduate standing. Enables students to understand the legal complexities involved in identifying and providing educational services to students with special needs.

Prerequisite: graduate standing. Introduces graduate students to concepts, methods, and issues in qualitative research as it is used in educational settings. Draws attention to epistemological and ethical concerns in social science and to strategic and logistical issues in the conduct of field research. Both positivist and interpretive approaches to the use of qualitative methods will be explored. Concept and theory building, strategies and techniques, and discussions of different issues of reliability and validity in the use of qualitative data will be emphasized.

Prerequisite: graduate standing. Explores twentieth-century ideas and issues in adult and higher education. The majority of the literature and discussion concern the university.

Prerequisite: graduate standing. Explores the educational participation of diverse groups in higher education. The student will gain a further understanding of issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and physical disability and their influence on colleges and universities.

Prerequisite: Graduate standing; May be repeated; maximum credit 12 hours. This course is designed to support doctoral students post-prospectus defense, during data collection, analysis, and the writing of their dissertation. As such, the course is run as a seminar in which students develop and progress their individual research projects. Particular attention is spent on data analysis processes and how to move from analysis toward the written dissertation.

Prerequisites: graduate standing and EACS 6023 , 6713 , and 6970. The course is intended to help provide advanced graduate students with necessary analytical skills to become effective consumers of research, and to produce an effective doctoral dissertation. The course focuses on skills related to formulation of research problems, developing research proposals, collection, analysis and interpretation of data.

Prerequisite: Graduate standing; majors only. This seminar is designed for advanced PhD students/candidates and is a formal venue for developing a sample dissertation prospectus as a starting point to work from and further develop with the student’s dissertation chair and committee.

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Online Doctor of Education in Education Administration

Become a changemaker for education., make informed decisions in complex settings.

The OU Online Doctor of Education in Education Administration is a 100% online, 54-credit-hour program that takes 36 months to complete. Led by renowned educational leaders and scholars from OU’s Jeanine Rainbolt College of Education, the program emphasizes relationship-building in a cohort model through community groups, networking events, and collaborative projects. The program, accredited by the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP), culminates with a problem of practice dissertation completed during coursework in the program's third year.

Choose from the following concentrations:

PK-12 Educational Leadership

Learn cutting-edge research and leadership skills to help advance your career in PK-12 school district-level education, including assistant, associate, and superintendent positions and human resources administration.

Higher Education Leadership

Apply current scholarship and research skills to advance your career in colleges, universities, and nonprofit organizations. You’ll be prepared for positions in student affairs, student support services, institutional research, and higher-level positions like dean or provost.

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Benefits of the Education  Administration Doctoral Degree

Meet today’s growing demand.

As today’s educational landscape grows increasingly complex, there is a growing need for quality leaders who can meet these new challenges. Become equipped with the advanced knowledge and skills others lack and become an educational change agent in your organization.

Strong Career Growth

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment of postsecondary administrators is projected to grow 4 percent by 2032. An estimated 15,300 job openings are projected each year, on average, over the decade. Many of these openings will result in the need to replace workers who transfer to different occupations or retire.

Flexible Format

Learn in a flexible, online program designed for working professionals. You’ll engage in discussion with professors and fellow students with opportunities to work together and collaborate.

OU Online graduates find employment within six months after graduation

OU Online graduates report earning an annual salary of $75,000 or more

OU Online students say the skills they gained in their program made them more competitive in their career field

Pursue Your  Education  Administration Doctoral Degree

Take the next step in your career with a degree from the University of Oklahoma. Applications are reviewed year-round for fall, spring, and summer sessions. Choose your program, choose your start, and apply today.

Program Breakdown

OU Online’s Doctor of Education in Education Administration program is structured to prepare students for job advancement and leadership by cultivating a deeper understanding of challenges in today’s educational settings. Students will learn how to lead change in their careers and gain the tools necessary to make positive and lasting changes in the organizations and educational settings in which they interact.

The program hosts monthly coffee chats each Friday where students can network with faculty and industry leaders. After completing year two, students will have the option to attend an immersion experience on campus.

This program offers two concentrations – PK-12 Educational Leadership or Higher Education Leadership. Students can begin their curriculum in summer or fall terms. Courses will contain both asynchronous and synchronous components. Synchronous sessions are optional and will be recorded for playback.

PK-12 Educational Leadership Concentration

• Applied Quantitative
• Theoretical Paradigms in Education
• Visionary Leadership
• Qualitative Inquiry for Practitioners
• Program Evaluation
• Instructional Leadership in Educational Administration
• Dissertation Development & Advisory
• Educational & Community Relations
• Strategic & Financial Planning in Education
• Special Education Law
• Prospectus Development
• Advanced Inquiry
• Readings for Prospectus
• Policy Planning and Development

Higher Education Leadership Concentration

• Administration of Adult & Higher Ed
• Educational Technology Leadership
• Critical Literature in Adult & Higher Ed
• Diversity Issues in Higher Ed

How to Apply

Admissions to the online Doctor of Education in Education Administration are selective. To be considered, you must have a conferred master’s degree from an accredited institution.

To apply, students must:

• Complete the online application at  https://gograd.ou.edu/apply/
• Submit a current resume
• Provide official college transcripts from all institutions for both undergraduate and graduate degrees
• Background on the setting (e.g., school district, higher education institution, or non-profit organization)
• Description of the problem of the practice
• Importance of your problem of practice
• It is understood that the dissertation topic/interests may change, so you are not locked into this proposal if you are accepted into the program.  
• International students must demonstrate English proficiency.

The admissions committee operates under a rolling admissions process, and admissions may continue until two weeks before classes start. The program strives to respond to applicants within one week of submitting a completed application.

For more information about the admissions process, please complete the contact form below, and an admissions counselor will be in touch shortly.

If you would like to compare the estimated cost of your program with a typical financial aid package, use the  cost calculator  on our OU Online financial aid page. 

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Like every OU Online program, the Ed.D. in Education Administration is built on the foundation of world-class University of Oklahoma faculty mixed with professors of practice providing valuable instruction. By linking industry experts with our online programs, we offer the most advanced curriculum and prepare students for future career success.

An Investment in Your Future

Earning a Doctor of Education in Education Administration from OU Online gives you the advanced knowledge necessary to make informed and effective decisions in complex educational settings. You’ll learn to develop and implement strategic plans that drive positive change and innovation in educational organizations, gaining an expanded professional network as part of the global OU alumni community.

Tuition and fees for the program are $29,700 ($550 per credit hour). Books and additional materials are not included.

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Which college majors earn most (and least) money after graduation? What federal data shows

Graduation is just around the corner for millions of high school seniors, meaning many of them will soon have to seriously consider which major to choose in college.

To earn money right after college, it might help to know ahead of time which majors pay and don't pay.

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York  recently compiled labor market outcomes by breaking them down by college majors.

The data includes unemployment and underemployment rates, early career and mid-career median incomes, and whether a graduate degree was attained.

Here's a look at the 10 majors with the lowest pay for recent college graduates, as well as the 10 highest, according to the Federal Reserve Bank:

Majors with low pay for recent grads

Unemployment and underemployment rates were taken from data of those ages 22 to 27 with a bachelor's degree or higher, while median wage numbers are measured among full-time workers with a bachelor's degree only. Mid-career graduates are those aged 35 to 45.

Here are the 10 majors with the lowest pay for recent graduates, sorted from lower to higher:

Liberal arts

• Early career median wage: $38,000
• Midcareer median wage: $65,000
• Unemployment rate: 7.9%

Performing arts

• Midcareer median wage: $64,000
• Unemployment rate: 5.5%

Theology and religion

• Midcareer median wage: $56,000
• Unemployment rate: 3.2%

Leisure and hospitality

• Early career median wage: $39,700
• Midcareer median wage: $67,000
• Unemployment rate: 4.1%

Anthropology

• Early career median wage: $40,000
• Unemployment rate: 4.5%

Early childhood education

• Midcareer median wage: $48,000
• Unemployment rate: 1.9%

Elementary education

• Midcareer median wage: $52,000
• Unemployment rate: 1.5%

Family and consumer sciences

• Midcareer median wage: $59,000
• Unemployment rate: 3.1%
• Midcareer median wage: $68,000

General social sciences

• Midcareer median wage: $70,000
• Unemployment rate: 0.6%

Majors with high early career pay

Computer engineering

• Early career median wage: $80,000
• Midcareer median wage: $125,000
• Unemployment rate: 2.3%

Chemical engineering

• Early career median wage: $79,000
• Midcareer median wage: $133,000
• Unemployment rate: 2%

Computer science

• Early career median wage: $78,000
• Midcareer median wage: $110,000
• Unemployment rate: 4.3%

Aerospace engineering

• Early career median wage: $74,000
• Midcareer median wage: $120,000
• Unemployment rate: 7.8%

Electrical engineering

• Early career median wage: $72,000
• Midcareer median wage: $112,000
• Unemployment rate: 2.9%

Industrial engineering

• Early career median wage: $71,000
• Midcareer median wage: $100,000
• Unemployment rate: 0.2%

Mechanical engineering

• Early career median wage: $70,000
• Midcareer median wage: $111,000

Miscellaneous engineering

• Early career median wage: $68,000
• Unemployment rate: 2.2%

General engineering

• Early career median wage: $66,000
• Midcareer median wage: $104,000
• Unemployment rate: 2.7%

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Dentistry students play 'price is right'.

In Matthew Messina's Introduction to Clinical Dentistry class, students played games similar to the popular game show to learn the cost of dental equipment.

Fatty food pre-surgery impairs memory

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Ohio State strongly condemns all terrorist groups and terrorist attacks, including those perpetrated by Hamas on Israeli civilians, Americans and others the weekend of October 7, 2023. The university is deeply committed to supporting all students, faculty and staff and will address national and global matters through direct actions and interventions that actively support the university community and afford educational dialogue in safe and supportive environments.

Strauss Investigation

Ohio State condemns Strauss' reprehensible conduct and the university's failure at the time to prevent the abuse.

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