Earn your master’s degree and prepare for licensing as a building-level administrator from anywhere you live and work. Courses are taught by the same award-winning faculty who teach the residential graduate programs.

Degree Requirements

Major Requirements (27 cr.)

• A500 Introduction to Educational Leadership (3 cr.)
• A510 School Community Relations (3 cr.)
• A515 Educational Leadership: Teacher Development and Evaluation (3 cr.)
  • Includes skills based on state teacher evaluation models
• A608 Legal Perspectives on Education (3 cr.)
• A624 Educational Leadership: Principalship K-12 (3 cr.)
• A629 Data-Informed Decision Making for School Leaders (3 cr.)
• A635 Public School Budgeting and Accounting (3 cr.)
• A695 Practicum in Educational Leadership (3 cr.)
• J500 Instruction in Context of Curriculum (3 cr.)

Strand Courses (9 cr.)
Higher Education and Student Affairs Strand (Online)

• C565 Introduction to College and University Administration (3 cr.)
• U544 Introduction to Student Affairs Work (3 cr.)
• U556 Applying Student Development Theory to Practice (3 cr.)

Leadership in Educational Organizations Strand (Online)

• A560 Political Perspectives of Education (3 cr.)
• H504 History of American Education (3 cr.)
• H520 Education and Social Issues (3 cr.)

Learning Sciences Strand (Online)

• P507 Assessment in Schools (3 cr.)
• P540 Learning and Cognition in Education (3 cr.)
• P574 Topical Seminar in Learning Science (1 -3 cr.)

School Law Strand (Online)

• A615 Advanced School Law (1-3 cr.)
• A675 Leadership in Special Education (3 cr.)
• A720 Workshop on Select Problems in Educational Leadership (1-3 cr.)

NOTE: Students may propose other strands with advisor approval. A Requirement Waiver/Substitution form is required.