• The Ph.D. program is designed to prepare students for academic, administrative, policy, and research positions in higher education, non-profit, and governmental settings. Students develop competencies needed to contribute substantively to the academic discipline of higher education, as well as to the development of higher education as a force in economic and technological development, intellectual and cultural advancement, and international cooperation.
  • Recent graduates are working in positions such as: tenure-track faculty and post-doctoral fellowship appointments in research universities; research and analyst roles in an institution, state system, or think tank; and administrative leadership appointments in campus and system offices of public service, diversity, government relations, student success, and institutional research.