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The Ph.D. degree in Higher Education Administration prepares students for careers as highly effective higher education administrators and staff professionals. The coursework prepares students for the varied challenges facing two-year, four-year and graduate institutions and communities today, and helps shape educational institutions in the future.

Program Learning Outcomes

Graduates of the program will be able to:

• Understand the administrative and financial functions performed on a college or university campus.
• Understand the complexities of college/university budgeting process and construct a divisional or departmental budget.
• Understand and commit to the diverse nature of higher education in the United States.
• Articulate the challenges and opportunities associated with the provision of a diverse, multicultural educational setting, including the impact of demographic changes on higher education and familiarity with strategies to diversify higher education.
• Understand the role of a faculty member and the curriculum development process in an institution of higher education.
• Understand and have conversant knowledge of the legal issues facing higher education today, including being familiar with legislation that impacts decision making within higher education.
• Understand the rights and responsibilities of employees and students within institutions of higher education, as well as the responsibilities of the institutions.
• Understand research methodology to conduct individual research.
• Understand the internationalization of higher education institutions, including explaining the different rationales for internationalization that may motivate different stakeholders in higher education and analyzing an institution’s internationalization goals and activities in terms of both an institutional strategy and in terms of student learning outcomes.

Examples of Possible Careers

Education administrators, all other

Education administrators, postsecondary