Earn your Master of Education in Higher Education Administration from Eastern Nazarene and increase your influence over the leadership, processes, management, and operational functions in higher education administration.
Earn the credential you’ve been looking for without changing your schedule. Don’t put work, family, or life on hold to earn your degree, Eastern Nazarene has designed this program for busy adults like you.
- Two format options: 100% online or a virtual class one night a week
- As little as 22 months to completion
- 36 credits for completion
- Tuition and Fees
- Graduate Assistantships Available
Begin your journey into higher education today with a Master’s in Higher Education Administration from Eastern Nazarene College.
About The Program
The Higher Education Administration program is a reflective, practitioner based, flexible educational experience that prepares its graduates to be student centered, servant leaders on their campuses. Graduates of our program experience a learning environment that offers the opportunity to apply what is being learned in the classroom to their professional or graduate level responsibilities. This curriculum promotes mastery of essential skills that enable professionals to:
- Develop beliefs, attitudes, and skills that reflect a professional identity rooted in servant leadership
- Apply research, theory and data driven decision making to achieve student success outcomes
- Create programs that compliment academic pursuits and foster student learning outside of the classroom
- Work effectively advising and helping individual students and student groups
- Advocate and model a holistic approach to the person in higher education settings
- Demonstrate an understanding of multicultural issues and competencies in higher education and act in ways that promote hospitable, inclusive practice
- Integrate an understanding of the context of higher education, including the history and organization of the student affairs profession, legal principles, and the academic mission of colleges and universities
- Manage and develop resources, including program budgets, staff, information technologies, and strategic plans
- Solve problems that require effective communication, thoughtful decision making, coping with ambiguity, and managing conflict
- Assess genuine professional issues by interpreting and applying qualitative and quantitative research techniques and by developing evaluations of programs and services
Curriculum
- ED-700, History of Higher Education (3 credits)
- ED-703, Student Life Theory and Practice (3 credits)
- ED-704, Organization and Governance of Higher Education (3 credits)
- ED-705, Finance in Higher Education (3 credits)
- ED-707, Higher Education and the Law (3 credits)
- ED-708, Higher Education Leadership (3 credits)
- ED-709, Essential Skills in Higher Education (3 credits)
- ED-711, Contemporary Issues in Higher Education (3 credits)
- ED-712, Access and Equity in Higher Education (3 credits)
- ED-713, Data-driven Decision-making in Higher Education (3 credits)
- ED-715, Enrollment Management in Higher Education (3 credits)
- ED-725, Capstone: Continuous Improvement in Higher Education (3 credits)
Course Catalogs
For course descriptions, requirements, focus areas, options, and other program details see our full course catalog.