Become a Life-Changing Leader in Higher Education
The EdM in Higher Education Administration at Boston University’s Wheelock College of Education & Human Development is fully online program that combines rigorous academics with real-world experience.
Students in the online EdM in Higher Education Administration learn alongside higher education professionals with diverse experience and values centering educational equity. They cover topics such as learning and development, legal issues, leadership and management, educational equity, research and assessment, and policy analysis.
Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development is a top-ranked college that focuses on cross-disciplinary research, experiential learning, and community engagement. We seek to empower our students, faculty, and staff to reshape the systems that impact learning and human development, more firmly centering them in justice, diversity, and belonging.
Shape the Future of Higher Education
Students in the online EdM in Higher Education Administration receive hands-on support for the duration of the program.
- Each course is organized in seven-week long modules
- Part-time students may enroll in up to two courses per term
- Enroll at the start of fall, spring, or summer
- Full time students can take an optional graduate assistantship or internship as part of the academic experience
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Career Paths
The EdM in Higher Education Administration prepares graduates for many different roles.
- Higher Education Leadership
Roles related to related to:
Student Affairs
Advising
Admissions and Financial Aid, and more. - Nonprofit Leadership
Positions in education-related nonprofits and professional associations.
Student field placements in the 2022–2023 academic year
Among U.S. graduate schools of education (U.S. News & World Report)
Awarded in external research funds in 2022
Faculty connected to the master’s in Educational Leadership & Policy: Higher Education Administration at BU Wheelock have decades of expertise and real-world wisdom. Learn from faculty such as Raul Fernandez, senior lecturer in the program, who chaired a committee for the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) that has been studying the issue of modern-day school segregation in Massachusetts. Fernandez parlayed his research into a new course, School Segregation. This is the type of high-quality work you’ll be immersed in.