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Nov 23, 2024
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2024-2025 Graduate & Professional Studies Catalog
Education Policy, PhD
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*PhD students admitted prior to Fall 2023 are eligible to follow these revised requirements to qualify for graduation.*
The education policy PhD program provides students with foundational grounding in education policy analysis. Students learn frameworks and methods for evaluating how policies and systems produce educational opportunities and systemic inequities. Students gain a nuanced understanding of the education policy process including policy formulation, implementation, and evaluation, and the methodological approaches used to examine these processes and their effects. And students explore how the (re)design of policies and systems create substantive improvements in learning opportunities for students of all ages. The program includes core content in: education policy systems and implementation, disciplinary grounding, the social contexts of education, policy analysis methods, and electives exploring specific policy topics and issues. The flexible curricular design enables students to choose courses that match their interests. Through apprenticed research experiences, students gain expertise in policy analysis necessary to prepare them to do independent research and pursue careers in policy research.
For additional degree requirement information, refer to the School of Education section on Doctoral Degree Requirements.
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Policy core courses
Students take 2 policy core courses (6 credits):
Social contexts of education
Students take 1 course (3 credits) from the following (other courses on this list can be taken as electives):
Research Methods
Students take a total of 7 courses (21 credits) including the schoolwide PhD research methods core (EDUC 3100 / EDUC 3103 / EDUC 3104) plus 4 additional courses based on interests. Recommended methods courses include but are not limited to the following:
Electives
Students select elective courses to develop a coherent plan of studies. Some options are listed below, but students can select any graduate level courses relevant to their program of studies.
Optional ARCO: Comparative and International Education
Students can opt to add an area of concentration in Comparative and International Education. Students interested in pursuing a more generally-focused policy degree enroll in the Education Policy major with no ARCO. The Comparative and International area requires the following courses:
Supporting field:
As an interdisciplinary program of study, PhD students in the Education Policy program are required to take 9 credits outside of the School of Education representing a coherent disciplinary or thematic focus. We encourage students to consult with their advisors about selecting courses that best align with their goals. Courses taken at a previous institution may be transferred to meet the Supporting Field requirement, if approved by the advisor. No modifications to this requirement are permitted, unless approved by a majority of the program faculty.
Other required courses:
Students enroll in the First Year Seminar (EDUC 3102 / EDUC 3105 ), 6 credits of Supervised Research (EFOP 3097 ), and 18 dissertation credits. The total number of credits required for the PhD degree, including transfer credits, is 90 credits.
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