The PhD concentration in Leadership and Policy Studies in Education requires a minimum of 60 credit hours, 30 hours of which will be taken toward completing a dissertation. As per the UAEU regulations, students should be studying on a full-time basis where they study three courses each semester. The time to complete the degree depends on the ability of the student to pass the comprehensive exam and write their dissertations. However, it is very likely to get the degree in less than four years. The main objectives of a PhD in Leadership and Policy Studies in Education are to help doctoral students to be competent in doing research in this area of specialization, teaching in higher education institutions, and to advance their knowledge, skills, and dispositions in this important area. This would allow them to attain leadership positions in schools, school districts, or higher levels of educational administration. Students in the PhD concentration in Leadership and Policy Studies will learn about highly important issues for leading educational systems and policy planning. A few of the issues of importance in the concentration include learning about organizational behavior, motivating and leading personnel toward higher productivity, leading school change, becoming instructional and transformational leaders, learning about sociology of education, being inducted into ethical leadership of schools and educational institutions, learning how to bridge the gaps between schools and the surrounding community, understanding global influence on education and being prepared to adapt to international changes, caring for diverse groups of students, and doing quantitative and qualitative research on leadership and policy issues

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