Learn to lead change when you earn your EdD at Northeastern University
Doctor of Education
Northeastern University is built on more than 125 years of experience in real-world learning, allowing you to not only implement your learning right away, but also bring change-driven strategies to your workplace and community. In our innovative Doctor of Education program, you’ll also undertake intensive weekend residencies that bring what you’ve learned into deeper focus.
The EdD program is an online degree designed to support you as a learner, working professional, and scholar-practitioner. It is rooted in the Graduate School of Education’s mission to cultivate leaders who, through lifelong experiential learning, help create a more just and equitable society.
In this program, you’ll:
- Customize your studies with a concentration in transformative school leadership, innovative teaching and learning, higher education administration, integrative studies, or workplace learning.
- Grow your professional network through in-person residencies in Boston; Charlotte, North Carolina; or Seattle.
- Work on a dissertation in practice, which connects your studies to a compelling educational challenge of your choice.
- Participate in two on-site residencies to acquire essential skills for career advancement and engage with faculty and peers to strengthen your foundational knowledge of the program.
- Learn from industry experts and faculty members who still work outside the classroom, bringing you a stronger understanding of current research, trends, and employer needs.
Hear from a recent student about her experience in the EdD program.
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"When I realized I could do this—still work, be with my family, and be remote—it was really enticing to me. My advisor and professors at Northeastern have been really amazing and really supportive. I’ve already gained a lot of respect from my school district.” —Mary Rose Steele, Doctor of Education, ‘23
About the Seattle Campus
- Expand your network of community and technical colleges, create local partnerships with professionals in a range of industries, and make connections with peers.
- Study with industry experts who work and live here—like Kari Thierer, a Northeastern EdD graduate who specializes in student-centered learning and career education.
- Gain firsthand knowledge of the in-demand skills needed in the Pacific Northwest region right now.
- Network, learn, and connect at our 80,000-square-foot campus in the South Lake Union neighborhood, which features three buildings of classrooms, collaboration spaces, and more.
About Northeastern
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experiential lifelong learning. Our approach of integrating real-world experience with education, research, and innovation empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create worldwide impact.
Our global university system provides our community and academic, government, and industry partners with unique opportunities to think locally and act globally. The system—which includes 13 campuses across the U.S., U.K., and Canada, 300,000-plus alumni, and 3,000 partners worldwide—serves as a platform for scaling ideas, talent, and solutions.
Northeastern’s personalized, experiential undergraduate and graduate programs lead to degrees through the doctorate in 10 colleges and schools across our campuses. Learning emphasizes the intersection of data, technology, and human literacies, uniquely preparing graduates for careers of the future and lives of fulfillment and accomplishment.
Our research enterprise, with an R1 Carnegie classification, is solutions oriented and spans the world. Our faculty scholars and students work in teams that cross not just disciplines, but also sectors—aligned around solving today’s highly interconnected global challenges and focused on transformative impact for humankind.