Online Master of Science in Educational Administration (EDAM)
Educational Administration (EDAM)
Program Overview
Want to be an education leader? Earn your online master’s degree in Education Administration (EDAM) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville College of Education.
Schools need good leaders now more than ever. UT offers two pathways within the online master’s degree program in Education Administration (EDAM). Choose from the K-12 Instructional Leadership concentration or the Higher Education Administration concentration.
Both offer maximum flexibility for working professionals seeking an online educational administration degree.
Become a Leader in Education
The online Master of Science (MS) in Education Administration (EDAM) degree at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, prepares you to be a leader in education with the choice of two concentrations:
- The K-12 Instructional Leadership concentration
- The Higher Education Administration concentration
Both concentrations are delivered asynchronously, which affords maximum flexibility for working professionals. Regardless of which concentration you choose, in the online MS in Education Administration program, you will achieve the following:
- Learn from knowledgeable professionals: our faculty bring current, real-world experiences to their courses
- Gain relevant professional experience during field studies
- Explore practical issues and concepts impacting the environment of education administration
- Enhance your leadership and management ability, develop policy knowledge toward effective practice, and build practical skillsets in research and evaluation
- Create a customizable course of study based on your circumstances
- Receive instruction from UT faculty and earn the same degree as on-campus students
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Program Concentrations
Higher Education Administration
The UTK online master’s degree in Education Administration with a concentration in Higher Education Administration is designed for those already working in higher education and those aspiring to transition into a higher education career path. With coursework covering educational law, policy, finance & budget, student success, and governance in higher education, you can become a higher education administrator capable of many roles and responsibilities across college and university campuses.
K-12 Instructional Leadership
As the standards and demands for excellence in K-12 school leadership continually increase, our preparation program offers the rigor and relevance for future leaders with coursework covering principalship, educational law issues, school finance and budgeting, and more. Accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), this program offers a Tennessee licensure track for current Tennessee educators and a non-licensure track for out-of-state educators.
Featured Courses
Local, state and federal education policy in U.S. higher education. Theories and practicalities of the policy process, political actors, policy formulation, policy instruments and policy evaluation. Exploration of change and tension between key policy goals (access, affordability, accountability) in promoting economic and social opportunity. Examination of current policy debates and their arguments for how researchers, politicians, and the popular press use data and structure to shape policy agendas and evaluation, including critical analytic techniques.
Educators must know the laws that govern the operation and conduct of their organizations as administrators face a highly litigious society. Will study the relevant legal principles that affect the operation, organization, and administration of American schools. Aspiring leaders will gain knowledge about legal issues that will help them in effectively performing their professional duties within the boundaries of constitutional, statutory, and case law. School law focuses on the legal rights, duties, and responsibilities of school personnel.
Trends, structure and process of collegiate governance. Development of understanding of administrative theory and practice in higher education.
Designed to provide graduate students a general understanding of the diversity of college students currently enrolled in higher education in the United States. Areas of emphasis include student characteristics, college choice and enrollment patterns, institutional types and environments, student development theory, retention and persistence, and college student outcomes.
