Northeastern University School of Education
Doctorate in Education
Northeastern University’s Doctorate in Education (Ed.D.) is a practitioner-oriented professional doctorate that enables education professionals to develop a broad range of leadership and management skills linked to ISLLC and NCATE guidelines for education leadership.
Components of the three-year (45 q.h.) program:
- Four foundational courses in current trends in education including multicultural and international perspectives
- Five core courses in education administration and leadership
- Five courses in one of the specializations listed below
- A collaborative doctoral project that addresses a significant curricular, policy, or management issue in education
Ed.D. strands combine core leadership and management courses with specialized content in:
- Elementary and Postsecondary Education
- Higher Education
- STEM Education
- Curriculum and Instruction
- International Education
About the Program:
- Designed to be completed in three years by working professionals
- Applicants must already have their master’s degrees in fields related to their Ed.D. program
- Candidates taking 2 courses per quarter should complete all coursework in 2 years
- Courses meet on weekends, during evenings, intensively during the summer, and on-line
- Development of the doctoral project begins during the first year
- Completion of the project is the focus of the third year
- Project proposals are researched and developed by teams of candidates, but each project is the product of, and defended by, an individual candidate
For more information please contact Kathleen Neilson at 508-379-1180 or by email at kneilson@scecoll.org.