Hybrid Washington D.C. Doctorate in Educational Leadership & Management (EdD)

Washington, DC Campus

With Drexel University’s hybrid EdD in Educational Leadership and Management, you can be the change agent your organization needs. Drexel’s hybrid format combines face-to-face learning at our Washington, DC campus with online learning for working professionals. This blended format gives you the benefits of studying in a dynamic and multifunctional academic center in the heart of the nation’s capital with the convenience of online classes.

What is a Doctorate in Education?

An EdD is the ideal degree for administrators and instructional experts seeking to become leaders and innovators in a wide variety of organizations. Drexel’s EdD program prepares you to create and support strong and sustainable educational organizations, with an accredited curriculum that encourages curiosity, reform, and scholarly proficiencies to lead meaningful action in today’s complex environment.

When looking for a doctorate degree, many educators have to decide between a PhD in Education and an EdD. The main difference between the two is substance and focus. While you will do plenty of research in an EdD program, a PhD in Education is far more research-intensive and is designed for those looking for a faculty position in higher education. An EdD, on the other hand, is designed for those who want to work in hands-on administrative leadership roles.

Hybrid Program Features

• Courses are aimed to develop your personal leadership growth
• Core courses are taught in-person at the Drexel DC Center, while concentration courses are completed online
  • 1st Year: Friday and Saturday in person, once a month
  • 2nd Year: Friday OR Saturday in person, once a month
  • 3rd Year: No in-person requirement (all coursework is online)
• Choose from a variety of concentration options to fit the program to your interests
• Drexel DC Center located just steps away from the US Department of Education and Congress

CPED Program of the year

Drexel's EdD program received the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED) Program of the Year Award for 2019, a prestigious distinction that recognizes programs demonstrating excellence, innovation, and impact.

Concentration Options

• Athletic Administration
  Covers legal and ethical matters, external funding sources, and additional issues that confront athletic departments in K-12 and higher education settings.
• Creativity and Innovation
  Provides an in-depth understanding of creativity, enhanced communication, and creative problem-solving; and explores how these may be applied to practical situations in the workplace.
• Educational Administration (with Pennsylvania Superintendent Letter of Eligibility)
  Examines the impact of education on major social issues and provides the skills and knowledge necessary to develop interdisciplinary models of curricula and teaching strategies.
• Education Policy
  Engages with policies and policy issues that have an impact on education, those working in it, and those served by it. Includes a heavy emphasis on the roles of ethics and ethical decision-making in policy development.
• Global & International Education
  Reviews the complex economic, political, cultural, and social structures that shape learning in different parts of the world.
• Higher Education
  Develops practical skills, using the latest learning technologies, strategies, research, software applications, and management systems for universities and the communities they serve.
• Human Resource Development
  Produces 21st century leaders with the competencies and capabilities to facilitate workplace learning, performance, and change in any organizational setting.
• Learning Technologies
  Teaches the skills needed to solve the technological learning challenges facing schools and businesses. Includes a focus on areas such as instructional design, performance support, virtual communities, learning in participatory culture, and e-learning leadership.
• Nursing Education
  Prepares registered nurses to assume faculty positions while providing a robust interdisciplinary education between Drexel's School of Education and the College of Nursing and Health Professions. Those who wish to pursue this concentration must have an RN license.
• Special Education Leadership
  Provides the unique leadership knowledge and skills needed to successfully direct programs within special education.

Archived Webinars

• Leaders’ Role in Recognizing and Responding to Distress and Promoting Wellbeing
• Online Open House: EdD in Educational Leadership and Management

Additional Program Formats

• Fully online with no residency requirement
• Hybrid option based in Philadelphia

State restrictions may apply to some programs.