The Doctor of Education (Ed. D.) program in Leadership Studies is an interdisciplinary
terminal degree offered by the School of Leadership and Policy Studies in the College of
Education and Human Development at Bowling Green State University. Students in the
Leadership Studies program enroll in cohorts, on either a three-year full-time basis or a four-year part-time basis. This doctoral program is a post-masters program designed to engage professional individuals in a rigorous process of inquiry, practice, and reflection. Individuals entering this program are typically individuals who hold masters’ degrees in academic disciplines, have several years of successful professional/leadership experience, and are interested in preparing themselves for leadership roles in school settings, faculty positions in colleges or universities, or leadership positions in businesses, human resource institutions and other organizations. The primary aim of the Doctoral Program in Leadership Studies is to prepare individuals to exercise leadership that will transform the quality of schools and other human resource institutions and thereby enable these organizations to attain specific goals and objectives as well as maintain their legitimacy within society.

Students in the program come from a wide variety of professional fields, including
elementary and secondary education, higher education, business, law, law enforcement,
government, medicine, nursing, healthcare, psychology, and social work. Additionally, although not leading specifically to administrative licensure, coursework included in the Ed. D. program may also be used to qualify individuals for Ohio school administrative licensure.

Admission Requirements