A Welcome from the Department Chairs
Thank you for your interest in the Educational Leadership programs at the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education and Human Development. Whether you're preparing to lead a K-12 school district, advancing your career in education administration or policy, or pursuing leadership in higher education, you'll find a supportive community committed to helping you grow as an effective and transformative leader. Our programs combine rigorous academics with practical experiences, faculty mentorship, and flexible learning options to prepare you to navigate the evolving opportunities and challenges of educational leadership. We look forward to helping you build the knowledge, skills, and confidence to lead meaningful change and make a lasting impact on schools, institutions, students, and communities.
Brian Brent, PhD
Co-Chair, K-12 Educational Leadership
Andrea Barrett, EdD
Co-Chair, Higher Education
Educational Leadership Options
Preparing innovative leaders, professionals, and researchers in K-12 and higher education settings, as well as in the education policies.
Key Program Features
- Supportive Environment: Engage with full-time faculty and peers at the master’s and doctoral levels, both inside and outside the classroom. Work with a dedicated faculty advisor to tailor the program to suit your academic and career goals.
- Fully Online and Hybrid-Online Options: Option to take some required and elective courses fully online or hybrid-online.
- Customizable: Includes a mix of rigorous core/specialization courses and elective courses to enable you to tailor the program to your career interests and needs. You can also add an Advanced Certificate for as little as three additional credits.
- Flexible: Program can be completed on a full-time ot part-time basis. You can also start during any semester and go at your own pace.
- Exciting Research Opportunities: Warner faculty are always working on interesting projects that can provide opportunities for research apprenticeships and assistantships.
- Opportunities for Additional Specializations: You can add an Advanced Certificate in Program Evaluation, Online Teaching, Digitally-Rich Teaching in K-12 Schools, Urban Teaching & Leadership, or Teacher Leadership for only a few additional credits.
Additional Advanced Certificates
Expand your expertise and enhance your career opportunities with these supplemental advanced certificates in teaching and leadership.
The staff and faculty help support you in your academic, personal, and professional endeavors. Everyone is truly so kind, accommodating, and supportive. There are so many possibilities and opportunities when it comes to being a Warner student. Leaving home and pursuing this degree was not an easy leap to take, but I realize that coming to Warner was one of the best decisions of my life.
- Mayra Vite-Romero ’23W (MS), PhD student
Higher Education
BRIAN BRENT
Earl B. Taylor Professor
K-12 Educational Leadership
Andrea Barrett
Assistant Professor
Higher Education
