Program highlights
- Flexible format. Our convenient online, evening classes meet just one night a week – perfect for demanding professional schedules. You come to campus for just one or two weekends each semester.
- Fast track or part time. Complete the program in three or four years.
- Financial support. We offer competitive graduate assistantships with tuition support and stipends for full-time leadership studies students. Scholarships are also available for part-time students.
- Personal and professional support. Our cohort model allows you to create lasting relationships with faculty and other professionals.
- Expert faculty. Our student-centered faculty has extensive leadership and research experience. They offer dissertation support throughout the program.
- Active, global alumni network. We are proud of our leadership studies graduates who make a major impact in their fields and who are eager to assist our new graduates.
Career opportunities
Students in our Ph.D. program in leadership studies typically want to advance their careers, change careers or find faculty positions in academia.
Our graduates hold leadership positions within a wide variety of organizations around the world. Many graduates are working in tenure-track faculty positions at colleges and universities across the U.S. and abroad.
Career paths
- K-12 superintendent
- Higher education administrator
- Social service leader
- Nonprofit leaders
- Consultant
Curriculum
The BGSU doctoral program in leadership studies is designed to engage students in a rigorous process of inquiry, practice and reflection. It has a research-based, interdisciplinary focus.
The curriculum includes:
- Core leadership courses that focus on leadership theories and practices relevant to all organizations
- Research sequence designed to prepare you for your dissertation
- Required internship or special project
- Electives that allow you to meet your professional goals
You can complete your Ph.D. in three years of full-time coursework or four years if enrolled part time.
Sample courses
- Moral and Ethical Leadership
- Diversity and Cultural Leadership
- Advanced Quantitative Methods
- Seminar: Educational Law
- Instruction in Organizational Leadership and Change
The leadership studies doctoral program is a program of the School of Counseling, Higher Education, Leadership and Foundations in the College of Education and Human Development.
Updated: 10/24/2024 01:27PM