Online Master of Science in Educational Administration (EDAM)
Educational Administration (EDAM)
Program Overview
Lead with purpose in education, from wherever you are in life.
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s online Master of Science in Educational Administration (EDAM) prepares you to step into leadership roles in schools, colleges, and education organizations. It’s built for working adults who want to grow their careers without putting work or family on hold.
Become a Leader in Education
Pick the path that fits where you want to lead. Each concentration has its own page with courses, career outcomes, and admission details:
- K-12 Instructional Leadership
- Higher Education Administration
Both concentrations are delivered asynchronously, which affords maximum flexibility for working professionals. Regardless of which concentration you choose, in the online MS in Educational 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 educational administration
- Enhance your leadership and management ability, develop policy knowledge toward effective practice, and build practical skill sets 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
The licensure pathway requires a 335-hour internship.
Admission Requirements
Please note that when applying to the M.S. in Educational Administration, you will want to submit your application to the specific concentration for which you are interested. These concentrations operate as separate programs, allowing students to tailor their learning to their specific interests.
General Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (K-12 education or a related field for the K-12 Concentration)
- Minimum of a 2.7 undergraduate GPA (K-12 Concentration) or 2.75 undergraduate GPA (Higher Ed Admin Concentration)
- Applicants to either program must fulfill UT’s Graduate School Requirements. Visit Graduate Admissions to get started.
Important: Admission requirement vary by concentration. Please check your concentration for its specific admission requirements.
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Program Concentrations
Higher Education Administration
K-12 Instructional Leadership
Featured Courses
Examples of courses offered in the Master’s in Educational Administration program include:
Explores core concepts in higher education administration and governance. Critically examines and applies scholarship related to administration and governance, culture and structure, and effecting change in higher education contexts. Considers how historical and contemporary policies and practices affect educational opportunities, equity, and inclusion.
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 interest include student characteristics, college choice and enrollment patterns, institutional types and environments, student development theory, retention and persistence, and college student outcomes.
Will look at the principalship, specifically the primary roles, traits, and functions of highly effective building level administrators. Will approach the principalship as a complex, multi-faceted profession that requires individuals to demonstrate a number of important leadership traits as well as fulfill a number of interrelated roles within schools. During this class, students will gain an understanding of these roles or functions through a study of the text, the Tennessee Licensure Standards for Principals (TILS), and the National Policy Board for Educational Administration (NPBEA) Standards. This course will rely heavily upon the text as well as scenarios or cases from actual schools as the primary vehicles for discussion and understanding. As much as possible, the focus will not only be on the theoretical traits and roles of the principal but also on how these capacities and functions play out in schools.
Provides a significant grounding in education resource management theory and practice, so as to allow students to acquire a working knowledge of the context of school finance at the national, state and local levels, and understand the strategies and mechanics of school resource utilization that are most closely associated with increased student academic success.
