Program Overview
Educational leaders drive the world. Helping shape future generations is a responsibility that can change the world — something Johnson & Wales University has experience with.
As one of New England’s premier educational leadership programs, JWU Providence’s Educational Leadership doctor of education degree (Ed.D.) will teach you to think, learn, and perform as a leader in PK-12 and higher education settings. You’ll build the skills to promote excellence in teaching, learning, and creating positive and necessary change in educational institutions.
Our Educational Leadership program exemplifies the university’s mission of blending academic and work-based learning for career advancement.
As a practice-focused doctoral program, JWU’s Ed.D. experience provides students the opportunity to learn with a cohort of talented practitioners while building research, leadership, and dispositional skills to support career advancement and impactful change.
How JWU’s Ed.D Program Supports Your Leadership Growth
When you choose JWU’s Ed.D. program, you can select from the Elementary/Secondary Education or the Higher Education cohort tracks — both provide a supportive peer network to discuss, analyze, and solve educational challenges collectively.
Together, in your cohort, you’ll focus your investigation and discussion around theory, professional practice, and research interests. Our team approach promotes a true network of working scholars who can examine, critique, support, and complement one another’s educational practice.
Our Educational Leadership degree combines experiential, collaborative, project-based, and interactive learning opportunities to provide the right blend of individual and team-based tasks through synchronous, asynchronous, remote, and in-person elements. Our multi-faceted and comprehensive program structure supports students of the future.
Sample Doctor of Education Courses
For a full course listing, visit the JWU catalog:
Advantages of Earning Your Educational Leadership Degree at JWU
Innovative Program: Our Educational Leadership Ed.D. program is designed to blend the best of all learning environments — you’ll learn through synchronous and asynchronous coursework remotely, accompanied by in-person learning opportunities with your peers in our Providence campus.
Professional Focus: We offer two content-specific cohorts, Elementary/Secondary and Higher Education, beginning each fall. Students travel through the program at the same pace, bonding through shared synchronous experiences, group/partner work, and feedback and guidance from full-time and practitioner faculty.
Accomplished Faculty: You will learn from experts — in research as well as connected content. Our practitioner faculty —both full and part-time — work in authentic settings as educational leaders. Their experience enriches the learning in meaningful and authentic ways.
Continuous Support: Our program’s robust personalization and effective dissertation advising supports a consistently high on-time program completion rate.
Personal Connections: Our strong program presence on JWU Providence’s Harborside Campus provides you with access to full-time faculty, program offices, library and other services to augment and support the program. Program administration and faculty have a hands-on and student-focused outlook to speak with and guide students.
Network for Life: JWU’s Ed.D. program has had more than 400 successful graduates, most of whom are active and connected members of the program’s alumni network.
