Doctorate in 
Global Education – EdD (Part-Time Hybrid) SIT Graduate Institute

Accelerate your career by building interdisciplinary expertise and skills to address critical issues in global education.

Please note that SIT will make every effort to maintain its programs as described. To respond to emergent situations, like COVID-19, however, SIT may have to change or cancel programs.

Why a Doctorate in Global Education?

Built on SIT’s powerful experiential learning model, our hybrid doctorate in global education (EdD) combines rigorous online coursework with short residencies in Vermont to fit the needs of part-time and full-time professionals seeking to rapidly accelerate their careers while tackling highly relevant issues in global education, both locally and abroad.

Drawing from SIT’s unique brand of in-depth, reflective practice and intensive research training, this doctorate gives you the tools you need to excel in an increasingly diverse, competitive, and interdisciplinary field. Courses take place in person and online, with an estimated 10 to 15 hours of study a week.

Begin the program on our beautiful Vermont campus with a two-week summer residency, which will ground and orient you to your studies, introduce you to SIT’s global values, and allow you to bond with students and faculty while acclimating to your coursework. You will return for two weeks the following summer, but otherwise work completely remotely.

Courses are immersive, with engaging doctoral seminars; case studies; theory; data collection; research methods; and reflective practice tied to your ongoing work experience. Transfer up to 12 graduate credits from a relevant master’s program into this three-year, 60-credit doctorate.

Throughout the program, you will receive one-on-one guidance from an SIT advisor who, along with your doctoral colleagues, will work closely with you on research topics of your choice. You will present your doctoral defense in person or remotely.

SIT’s Doctorate in Global Education is recommended for students with a passion for international work and education at any level, in any subfield, at any location. As a graduate of this program, you will be fully supported by SIT’s global professional and alumni networks to advance to the top of your field as an international educator.

Program Sites

• Courses take place almost entirely online
• Summer residencies in Vermont

Coursework

Your doctorate program will span three years, totaling 60 credits. With SIT’s experiential curriculum, you will become an expert in educational policy, practice, theory, research, and administration through curated coursework online combined with limited residential coursework and reflective practice within your ongoing professional activities, concluding with a dissertation.

Semester One: Summer, two-week residency and online (8 Credits)

• Theoretical Foundations I
• Research Methods 1: Qualitative Approaches
• Reflective Practice Doctoral Seminar 1

Semester Two: Fall, online (8 Credits)

• Theoretical Foundations II
• Research Methods 2: Qualitative Approaches
• Reflective Practice Doctoral Seminar 2

Semester Three: Spring, online (8 Credits)

• Research Methods 3: Introduction to Statistical Methods
• Reflective Practice Doctoral Seminar 3
• Elective

Semester Four: Summer, two-week residency and online (8 Credits)

• Research Methods 4: Qualitative or Quantitative Data Analysis
• Reflective Practice Doctoral Seminar 4
• Elective

Semester Five: Fall, online (5 Credits)

• Reflective Practice Doctoral Seminar 5
• Elective
• Preparation of Dissertation Proposal and Human Subjects Review Application

Semester Six: Spring, online (8 Credits)

• Reflective Practice Doctoral Seminar 6
• Proposal Defense
• Data Collection
• Elective

Semester Seven: Summer, online (5 Credits)

• Reflective Practice Doctoral Seminar 7
• Data Collection
• Dissertation Writing

Semester Eight: Fall, online (5 Credits)

• Reflective Practice Doctoral Seminar 8
• Dissertation Writing

Semester Nine: Spring, online, and graduation (6 Credits)

• Reflective Practice Doctoral Seminar 9
• Dissertation Defense (can be remote)
• Graduation

Upon successful completion of the program, students will be able to:

• Analyze contemporary educational issues around the globe through the lens of foundational theories.
• Design and carry out original, ethical research informed by relevant literature and grounded in appropriate methodologies and approaches.
• Interpret original and secondary data to produce actionable findings.
• Contribute to scholarship and practice of the field through publishable research findings.

Career Paths

Students in the EdD program go on to work in the field in a variety of areas including leadership positions in academia, higher education, think tanks, NGOs, nonprofits, philanthropy, government agencies, and research. Career paths that may be open to you include:

• University professor, assistant, or associate professor
• Executive director of higher education center or nonprofit
• Nonprofit, think tank, NGO management, or leadership
• Director of programs for nonprofit or NGO
• Education administrator
• Associate/assistant provost or provost
• Senior or leadership role in academic affairs
• Researcher at a think tank or NGO