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Innovative change in your organization starts here. expand your leadership skills and create new solutions to persistent challenges with your edd in leadership and innovation..

NYU Steinhardt’s EdD in Leadership and Innovation is more than an educational leadership degree program. It’s a cohort of professionals, faculty, and distinguished cross-sectoral leaders interested in education and learning. Collectively, they understand that by working together, they can effect sustainable and scalable change through education leadership jobs in their organizations.

This Doctorate in Education serves a diverse range of experienced professionals. Rooted in a rigorous academic experience and shared passion, the advanced degree is designed for cross-sector leaders who are motivated to create change in education and learning.

Students accepted into the program bring with them real-world challenges. They are encouraged to question and explore, to take risks and succeed, to push and innovate.

This is a unique educational leadership degree that addresses the needs of working professionals with a rigorous online doctorate in education program that can be completed in as few as 24 months.

We [leaders] need to know how to speak to each other in a common language. Our EdD in Leadership and Innovation creates the space where we can find a common language as we work across sectors to solve problems. Dr. Noel S. Anderson Founding Faculty

Solving problems means challenging preconceptions.

Transformative change can result when you allow your point of view to be questioned. So, one of the best ways to develop knowledge, skills, new approaches, and solutions is to work with others — people across all sectors who will challenge you with differing perspectives.

We bring together students and instructors from inside and outside the scope of traditional education to push you to think differently and to ask tough questions.

When you intentionally gather people from different personal and professional backgrounds to collaborate, something powerful occurs: change happens. It’s how to build new processes, solutions, policies, and powerful new tools — and how to create visionary leaders.

We believe leaders are learners, and that education is essential to great leadership.

The NYU EdD is a rigorous online doctorate degree program that combines the discipline of a top-tier university with an innovative approach to education and leadership. We offer accessibility through enhanced technology and the personal connection of face-to-face instruction.

We examine the most important issues leaders in education and learning face today and discover solutions that make change possible for tomorrow. We apply an academic lens to myriad sectors so students graduate from the doctoral program in education with the core competencies for impactful director and executive-level career options.

The research, analysis, writing, and critical thinking involved in students’ strategic design and implementation of a change management project are assets that students will bring to current and future employers.

Education Policy - PhD

Education policies address broad issues of human capital development, equity of opportunities and outcomes, fair and efficient allocation of education resources, societal opportunity structures that impede and facilitate education success, and political structures that frame how education policy is formulated and implemented. For example, education policy Ph.D.’s might study whether reducing the size of high schools in large urban districts improves the performance of students who attend those schools as well as the performance of students who continue to attend other district schools. Or, whether state school finance court cases challenging the equity or adequacy of the distribution of resources across school districts improves outcomes for disadvantaged students. Or whether regular education students fare well when students with disabilities are educated in their same classrooms rather than in segregated classrooms.

Moreover, the field involves study of policies and issues that while not strictly “education” have an effect on educational outcomes. For example, the level of crime in a student’s neighborhood or the quality of a student’s housing or the food policies in a student’s school or district can affect student performance, attendance and school environment. These related issues are also part of the education policy field.

Expertise in education policy involves the ability to approach research by undertaking causal studies of effects of policies and by undertaking process studies of the formulation and implementation of policies. Economics, politics, and sociology form the core disciplines for this field. Students are expected to have an understanding of all aspects of the field, but to specialize in a discipline and approach. The U. S. Department of Education-sponsored Pre-Doctoral Interdisciplinary Training Program (PIRT) is an exceptional resource for NYU students interested in education policy ( http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/ihdsc/iespirt ). The PIRT program provides tuition and stipend support for doctoral students, seminars featuring national experts in education policy, and access to opportunities to work for and with a wide variety of faculty from around the University. All students applying to the NYU Wagner Ph.D. program in educational policy should indicate if they are interested in being part of the PIRT program.

Bilingual Education (PhD)

Program description.

This PhD program in Bilingual Education prepares teacher educators, supervisors, and researchers for bilingual and bicultural settings. The program emphasizes research in language acquisition, bilingualism, and pedagogy in linguistically diverse environments in addition to the foundations of education, research methods, departmental content seminars, and dissertation proposal seminar.

Admission to graduate programs in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development requires the following minimum components:

• Statement of Purpose
• Letters of Recommendation
• Transcripts
• Proficiency in English

See  NYU Steinhardt's Graduate Admissions website  for additional information on school-wide admission. Some programs may require additional components for admissions.

See  How to Apply for admission requirements and instructions specific to this program.

Program Requirements

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Following completion of the required coursework for the PhD, students are expected to maintain active status at New York University by enrolling in a research/writing course or a Maintain Matriculation ( MAINT-GE 4747 ) course.  All non-course requirements must be fulfilled prior to degree conferral, although the specific timing of completion may vary from student-to-student.

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Upon successful completion of the program, graduates will:

• Demonstrate expertise in theories, concepts, and critical issues in their program specialization.
• Apply research designs and methodologies appropriate to their research questions.
• Demonstrate effective written and oral communication of scholarship to multiple audiences.

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• Small Size.  We have a small program relative to the size of the department – the average incoming cohort is three students. This means that students can get very personalized attention from faculty. The Doctoral Coordinator makes every effort to match students with faculty who can help them develop research skills in their specific area of interest.
• Collaborative Culture.   Our department has a collaborative culture and we integrate our doctoral students into our research activities.  Students participate in our many internal workshops and external research seminars and also organize a doctoral brownbag/happy hour.
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Students accepted into these programs normally begin by spending their first year in New York City for foundational PhD coursework, completed alongside other NYU PhD students in their discipline, before transitioning full-time to research groups led by NYU Shanghai faculty.

All students are supported through a generous financial aid program - the NYU Shanghai Doctoral Fellowship, which includes scholarships covering NYU tuition and fees, annual stipends, travel funds, and enrollment in an international health insurance plan.

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C2SMARTER Women in Transportation Series 2023-2024

Meet 2023-24's Women in Transportation

The Women in Transportation series honors distinguished women from various corners of the transportation world including industry, public sector, and academia. The hour long presentations are opportunities for women in the field to discuss their experiences and career paths with students who will soon be entering the job market themselves. 

This year, our seminar presenters are Elaine Du of AKRF , Lavanya Marla of University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, and Ilgin Guler of Penn State .

To celebrate Women's History Month, we also had the pleasure of hosting this year's Women in Transportation Panel on March 11. Moderated by NYU PhD Candidate  Daphne Cornelisse  and comprised of NYC DOT's  Erin LaFarge , the MTA's  Lisa Mae Fiedler , and Via's  Gal Kramer , the panel spoke of their unique professional perspectives as women in transportation as well as broader trends in the industry.

Installment I: Elaine Du

Technical director, traffic & transportation, akrf.

Elaine Du, PE is a Technical Director with AKRF in White Plains and a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of New York. She grew up in New York City and earned her bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from The Cooper Union in 2014. Her professional experience includes traffic engineering, planning, and design for large projects such as the Tappan Zee Bridge Replacement, Bayonne Bridge Raise the Roadway, and LaGuardia Airport Redevelopment. 

Elaine presented on October 17, 2023.

Installment ii: lavanya marla, researcher and assistant professor, uiuc.

Professor Marla presented on February 14, 2024.

Professor Marla is an experienced Assistant Professor with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. She is a strong education professional with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) focused in Transportation Systems from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Marla builds models and computational techniques that combine large-scale optimization, data mining, statistics, simulation to improve logistics and transportation systems and healthcare delivery systems. Also, she is interested in research on emerging economy settings.

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Associate professor, penn state.

S. Ilgin Guler is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests include multi-modal urban traffic operations and control, intelligent transportation systems, connected and autonomous vehicles and infrastructure management. She received dual B.S. degrees from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey in Civil Engineering and Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. 

Professor Guler presented on March 7, 2024.

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To celebrate Women’s History Month, C2SMARTER, the NYU-ITE Student chapter, and the ITE MET Section had the pleasure of hosting this year’s Women in Transportation Panel on March 11. This was the first installation of the ITE Met Section, YPT NYC and WTS Greater New York Chapter Women in Transportation Series occurring this year.

Moderated by NYU PhD Candidate Daphne Cornelisse, the panel featured three leaders in the transportation field:

Erin LaFarge, Director of Safety Policy at NYC DOT

Lisa Mae Fiedler, Acting Manager of Data/Analytics at MTA

Gal Kramer, Associate Principal at Via

Over 50 rising transportation professionals attended the hour-long panel discussion focused on gender equity in the workforce and throughout global transportation systems. The panel spoke of their unique professional perspectives as women in transportation as well as broader trends in the industry, before opening up for a Q&A portion for the audience to ask their own questions. 

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