Doctor of Education in Leadership Online

If you’re an aspiring leader who wants to earn your terminal degree to lead strategically, ethically and create meaningful change, Spalding University’s online Doctorate of Education in Leadership (EdD: Leadership) is designed for you.

Our online EdD: Leadership program is a collaborative, interdisciplinary and globally conscious program for current and future leaders aspiring to use their influential voices to innovate and create sustainable, transformational change.

This full-time program is mission-driven and addresses modern-day issues. Courses are delivered one at a time, allowing you to earn your terminal degree in just two years while maintaining your current job responsibilities and personal lifestyle.

With your EdD in Leadership, you will stand out as an exemplary practitioner of ethical organizational leadership, an extraordinary team builder, a systems thinker and a driver of change and innovation in a global economy.

Mission Statement

Spalding University is a diverse community of learners dedicated to meeting the needs of the times in the tradition of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth through quality undergraduate and graduate liberal and professional studies, grounded in spiritual values, with emphasis on service and the promotion of peace and justice.

Join Our Mission to Serve Others

Our mission is more than words on paper. We live it. We share it. We take pride in it. As an online Spalding University student, we invite you to take our mission to serve others with you out into the world.

Spalding University is a diverse community of learners dedicated to meeting the needs of the times in the tradition of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth through quality undergraduate and graduate liberal and professional studies, grounded in spiritual values, with emphasis on service and the promotion of peace and justice.

Why Spalding?

Diverse. Inclusive. Compassionate.

Join our diverse community of people who are fundamentally different from one another but have the same goals to learn, grow and carry forth the tradition of serving others with a compassionate spirit.

Service to Others

Dive into the many opportunities we offer to serve others and do good.

Compassion in Action

Become a part of the world’s first institution certified as a Compassionate University.

Mission-driven. Compassionate.

Spalding University online is a home for students of all ages, from all walks of life, who come together to earn an advanced degree to enhance their lives and the lives of others. We invite you to join our diverse community of people who are fundamentally different from one another but share the same goals: to learn, grow and carry out the Spalding mission of serving others with a compassionate spirit

Spalding University is the world’s first certified compassionate university in the Charter for Compassion, an international, interfaith coalition of organizations and individuals dedicated to the creation of a just economy and a peaceful global community.