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Take the opportunity to make an impact on your educational community by earning an online education doctorate in organizational leadership at Grand Canyon University. Equip yourself with the skills needed to inspire, influence and lead your educational organization or community.
The EdD in Organizational Leadership program can help you to develop the skill set needed to work from both a business and education perspective to create an effective organization functional for both external and internal stakeholders. Courses evaluate specific methods of responding to external entities while maintaining an environment that helps internal members potentially excel and improve learning for their students.
By completing your quantitative Doctor of Education in Organizational Leadership with an Emphasis in Organizational Development, you can use your skills to help make an impact on the field of education and help your organization thrive.
Up to 9 doctoral credits
Credits: Fill out the Lopes Eval to find out what will transfer
Admission Requirements (Doctoral)
OR 2.5+ Unweighted GPA and
Admission requirements may differ based on degree level, program and modality, or transfer status. Some programs of study may require a higher GPA and/or other qualifying criteria for admission. Please review full admission and program requirements in the University Policy Handbook.
* Degree must be from an institutionally accredited school. Applicants with a GPA less than 3.4 may be accepted with specifications.
** Degree must be from an institutionally accredited school. Applicants with a GPA between 3.0 - 3.39 may be accepted with specifications. Applicants with a GPA below 3.0 will not be accepted.
By developing your skills, you can formulate your own personal philosophy of leadership by examining the various ethical and moral frameworks concerning leadership. The program allows you to examine leadership and organizational structure through different perspectives and theories in order to extract your own actionable methods of leadership and organization.
The EdD in Organizational Leadership program’s classes strive to equip you with the skills to:
Assess behavior and implement behavioral theory to manage employees
Encourage creativity inside learning organizations
Motivate innovative behavior to increase educational effectiveness
Evaluate organizational structure and employ methods to modify these structures
Apply research to explain events, dynamics and behaviors in an organization
To learn more about time to completion and the dissertation process at GCU, visit our doctoral page.
Quantitative doctoral degrees give you the opportunity to design, collect and analyze your own original research in order to advance the knowledge in your field. GCU’s leadership doctorate involves completing your own research and drawing impactful conclusions through statistical analysis of data. This differs from GCU’s qualitative EdD, which will draw themes from existing and original research.
§ MOU-Alumni 2000 Doctoral-July2025: The Alumni Scholarship for Doctoral Programs is only valid for those applicants who submit a complete application and begin a Doctoral program in July 2025. This scholarship cannot be used in conjunction with any other GCU scholarship or awards and only applies to online and evening programs. Please speak to a university counselor for complete details.
As a student in this program, you can employ quantitative methodology to design, collect and analyze information in a scholarly dissertation. The program is designed to provide support throughout the dissertation process, starting at the very beginning of the program. Courses incorporate consideration and preparation for the dissertation into every course in the degree program, allowing you to work on it steadily throughout the program.
The program aims to equip you with actionable skills in three primary domains of research, leadership theory and application, and organizational development emphasis. Courses will give you the opportunity to advance in your knowledge of leadership dynamics through in-depth research that can allow you to facilitate your abilities as a leader and evolve into a strategic professional. Through coursework and your own research, you will be taught to identify and analyze prevailing social, cultural and political conditions surrounding modern education with the goal of moving your organization forward.
