Online Doctoral Program

If you’re interested in pursuing a career in education, and wish to advance your position to an administrator or curriculum developer, consider earning your online education PhD.

There are many benefits to earning a PhD. Besides the prestige of holding the highest degree possible, typically, a PhD can help you earn more money and provide you with a world of knowledge and advanced techniques in your field of study that you wouldn’t learn with just a bachelor’s or master’s degree. Technically, a Doctor in Education degree is commonly referred to as an “EdD”, and is recognized as an equivalent to the PhD degree. To begin inquiring about earning an online PhD, follow this link: online doctoral programs in education.

The EdD program can be completed on-campus as well as through distance learning. Usually, these EdD degree courses allow students to select a concentration of teacher leadership, early childhood education, community college leadership, adult education, training, educational technology, or e-learning leadership, to name a few.

In the United States, the Ed.D. degree is the ideal degree to have for people who wish to hold positions in education, such as superintendent of schools, human resource director, or principal.

Walden University offers an online Ed.D. degree program that allows students to select from specializations including:

• Administrator Leadership for Teaching and Learning
• Higher Education and Adult Learning
• Teacher Leadership

All 3 specializations require 54 credits to graduate, and will take approximately 3 years to complete. The current tuition rates for this program are $720 per credit hour, which includes all textbooks and learning materials. The EdD program also requires a 3-day residency program, which is $660 plus travel, lodging and other expenses.

There are many advantages to earning your PhD or EdD online instead of through a traditional classroom. Assuming that most Doctorate students are also full-time working adults, possibly with families they are raising and the tasks involved with maintaining a household, being able to turn on their home computer and complete their coursework from their home certainly makes fitting education into their schedule a bit easier to maintain. Anywhere with a computer and working internet connection, whether it be a living room, bedroom, morning commute on a train, local coffee shop or library, can be your ticket to earning your doctorate. For more information on how you can make that happen, click here: online doctoral programs in education