Overview
Key Features
Cohort Model:
- Your cohort will bring together experienced leaders with different backgrounds – academic, ethnic, professional, and international – to form a diverse and dynamic learning community.
- Leveraging the resources of the Lynch School's prestigious Center for International Higher Education, the program brings together cohorts of experienced administrators from across the US and around the world to study with BC’s internationally-recognized faculty.
- Our Higher Education curriculum at Boston College prepares you to make strategic decisions with data-informed insights to provide socially just leadership and design higher education institutions and systems that work better for everyone.
- The program pairs online learning with weeklong summer residencies in two of the world’s most dynamic cities, Boston and Dublin.
- Online courses are offered in a variety of formats during the academic year, and live online meetings are scheduled at times that allow you to grow in your current role while completing the program.
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Law, Policy, and Politics of Higher Education in the (Inter)National Context
- Social Justice and Higher Education
- Leading Teaching and Learning
- Managing Change in Higher Education
- Data Literacy
- Data Driven Decision Making
- Strategic Problem Solving through Design Thinking
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 36 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
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- Students begin in May and come to BC for their first summer residency in June.
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Higher Education View 23 other PhDs in Higher Education in United StatesAcademic requirements
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General requirements
To be eligible for the doctoral program, applicants must already hold a master's degree and have 7 years or more of professional experience in higher education or a higher education-adjacent field.
- Application Form & Fee
- University/college transcripts are required from all post-secondary education institutions attended.
- Letters of Recommendation
- Personal Statement & Resume
- English Language Proficiency
- Writing Sample
Tuition Fee
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International
30880 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1930 USD per credit during 36 months. -
National
30880 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1930 USD per credit during 36 months. -
In-State
30880 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1930 USD per credit during 36 months.
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