Online Doctoral Degrees
Online Doctoral Degrees
Earning your doctorate is an academic milestone and a source of great achievement that can also have a tremendous impact on your chosen career, depending on your background and goals. K-State Online offers four doctoral programs, each utilizing a hybrid format that offers a majority of the coursework online with infrequent on-campus components integrated into the curriculum.
K-State Online's distance courses are taught by the same expert faculty as on-campus students, and we have a single tuition rate regardless of whether you live inside or outside the state of Kansas.
Adult Learning and Leadership
Adult Learning and Leadership
The online adult learning and leadership doctorate creates a pathway to future success as a researcher or practitioner in adult learning by providing a broad and human-centered curriculum designed to be customizable to your academic background and career goals. You can choose to complete this program as a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) or Doctor of Education (Ed.D).
Curriculum and Instruction
Curriculum and Instruction
The online curriculum and instruction doctorate will help you develop an understanding of the historical, philosophical and societal basis of educational practice and the application of research to practice. Offered as a Doctor of Education (Ed.D.), this program emphasizes practice and leadership, as well as the challenges facing contemporary K-12 educators.
Leadership in Academic Advising
Leadership in Academic Advising
The online leadership in academic advising doctorate will prepare you for a role in leadership, research or teaching focused on academic advising in higher education. The doctorate is offered as a specialization within the counseling and student development doctoral program.
Personal Financial Planning
Personal Financial Planning
The online personal financial planning doctorate provides the knowledge, skills and tools necessary to achieve success as a university faculty, director of research or practitioner of financial planning. This doctorate is one only four doctoral programs in the nation to be registered with the CFP® board.