Overview

The Educational Leadership program at Penn State is ranked #5 by the U.S. News and World Report, 2009. This program is available to those who want to exercise leadership roles in educational policy and management or engage in research. Among those roles are principals, supervisors, and superintendents of public and independent schools, intermediate unit officials, state and federal agency administrators and staff, professors of Educational Leadership, and research and development personnel. Special areas of research are organizational theory, school law, negotiations, personnel and staff development economics and finance in education, application of modern technology, leadership, politics of education, and philosophical issues in educational leadership. Internships and practicums in a variety of settings can be arranged.

The Educational Leadership Program is located in the Department of Education Policy Studies within the College of Education, at The Pennsylvania State University. Its purpose is to prepare administrators and researchers in educational leadership. In the program students utilize concepts from theory and research as a framework for applications to school practice.

Our graduates hold positions as. . . 

• Principals
• Supervisors
• Superintendents of Public and Independent Schools
• Intermediate Unit Officials
• State and Federal Agency Administrators & Staff
• Professors of Educational Leadership
• Research and Development Personnel