PhD Program

URI/RIC PhD Program in Education Current Structure

Admission:

• Master’s degree in education (or allied field, e.g., psychology) or at least 30 graduate credits from a regionally accredited institution of higher education. The graduate level work must include three credits in each of the following areas: educational foundations, curriculum, and research.

• Resume; Personal statement; Research statement; 3 letters of recommendation; Transcripts

• **GRE no longer required

Year 1:

• Fall:

  • EDP 600: Academic Reading & Writing for Doctoral Studies

  • EDP 601: First Year Proseminar for Ph.D. in Education

  • EDP 620: Contemporary Issues in Hum Dev, Learning & Teaching

• Spring:

  • EDP 610: Contemporary Issues in Educational Inquiry

  • EDP 630: Issues in Educational Leadership Policy and Analysis I

  • [Full time students - Elective]

Year 2:

• Fall:

  • EDP 622: Community Service Learning

  • EDP 623: Research Design

  • [Full time students - EDP 631: Issues in Educational Leadership Policy and Analysis II]
    

• Spring:

  • EDP 612: Qualitative Research Methods in Education

  • EDP 613: Introduction to Quantitative Research

  • EDP 641: Doctoral Dissertation Research Seminar

  • [Full time students - Elective]

Year 3:

• Fall:

  • EDP 631: Issues in Educational Leadership Policy and Analysis II

  • EDP 641: Doctoral Dissertation Research Seminar

  • EDP 699: Doctoral Dissertation Research (?)

  • Comprehensive exams (?)

• Spring:

  • EDP 641: Doctoral Dissertation Research Seminar

  • Comprehensive exams (?)

  • EDP 699: Doctoral Dissertation Research (?)

Year 4+:

• Comprehensive exams

• EDP 641: Doctoral Dissertation Research Seminar (fall of year 4)

• EDP 699: Doctoral Dissertation Research

• Dissertation proposal defense

• Dissertation defense