Doctor of Education
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Overview
Doctor of Education
Introduction
The Doctor of Education is a specialised doctorate designed for professionals in education and related fields. Built on a cohort model of inquiry, the Doctor of Education provides a structured, supportive, rigorous approach to doctoral study.
The Doctor of Education builds leadership and commitment, fosters scholarly excellence, and allows candidates to connect educational research with questions of professional practice.
Doctor of Education
Why study a EdD at UC?
Doctor of Education graduates will:
- Meet high international standards in the quality of their scholarly work
- Adopt an investigative, probing, open-minded, reflective, dialogical stance in addressing scholarly and professional problems
- Draw on insights from their studies in seeking to make a worthwhile difference in the lives of others
- Be able to link, in a coherent and rigorous manner, theory and research to questions of professional practice
- Be adept at presenting their work in conferences and seminars, and in publishing their findings
- Value the process of peer review in advancing scholarly and professional understanding
- Be willing and able to demonstrate leadership in their domains of professional endeavour
- Have a strong sense of global awareness and participate actively in wider scholarly and professional communities.
Doctor of Education
How do I plan my degree?
The EdD contains two parts:
- Part I 鈥 a research portfolio (120 points)
- Part II 鈥 a thesis (240 points)
This qualification tends to take between 4鈥5 years to complete, as a mixture of part and full-time study (or part-time only for up to 6 years). Part I can only be completed part-time over 2 years.
EdD students start as a group on 1 March.
For full requirements, see the Regulations for the Doctor of Education.
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2024 annual fee estimate:听$7,627 per 120 points
2025 annual fee estimate: $8,085 per 120 points
International students
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