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.

Global Focus:

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.

Data-Informed Strategy:

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.

Online with Summer Residencies:

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 2027-05-15 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-12-01 00:00:00

Language

English

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IELTS

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Credits

48 SCH

Delivered

Online

Campus Location

Newton, United States

Disciplines

Higher Education View 31 other PhDs in Higher Education in United States

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Academic requirements

GRE^®

Required

English requirements

Duolingo English Test

130

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TOEFL^® IBT

100

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IELTS

7.5

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Other requirements

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.

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