Online Doctoral Programs and Professional Doctorates

Choose from 11 online doctorate in education specializations to focus your learning in an area that matches your personal interests and career goals.

If you already have a DNP degree, Walden’s DNP to PhD in Nursing Bridge Option can offer you a shorter path to PhD completion.

Explore healthcare topics such as governance, public policy, and strategic planning in our PhD in Nursing Healthcare Administration specialization.

Walden’s online PhD nursing education specialization equips you with the expertise to promote excellence in nursing education.

Design a focus area that reflects your professional goals and interests with Walden’s PhD in Nursing Interdisciplinary Health specialization.

With the PhD in Nursing Leadership specialization, you’ll build key leadership competencies that empower you to drive change in your organization.

Develop leadership and advanced population-health nursing skills in community-based assessment, program planning, interventions, and outcomes.

Explore an integrative approach to all aspects of organizations, including people, processes, technology, systems, and management.

Develop a deeper understanding of financial models and theoretical tools as you broaden your expertise in relevant topics such as investor-led investments, mergers and acquisitions, and managing and mitigating financial crises within a global environment.

Explore the changes in organizational innovation agility and develop leadership strategies informed by design thinking.

Apply current theories to conduct research in areas such as the behavioral implications of environments, motivation, and performance on individuals and teams in global environments; strategic human resource management; the role of collaboration and performance of global teams; regulatory and ethical concerns; and labor relations.

Create your own specialization based on your individual goals and interests in management. Choose courses from other specializations within the program under the guidance of a Walden faculty mentor.

Our PhD dissertation completion program is designed specifically for returning doctoral degree candidates who have completed all coursework for a PhD, except the prospectus and dissertation process, at an accredited university.

Challenge your critical thinking abilities by testing conventional organizational strategies and structures in this specialization. Develop alternative conceptualizations of management, understand what a socially conscious leader is, and create 21st-century leadership practices.

Prepare to implement and lead quality improvement initiatives across teams and organizations with Walden’s DNP Executive Leadership specialization.

Train to diagnose and treat patients 13 and older with complex acute and unstable chronic medical conditions with our DNP-AGACNP specialization.

Provide complete, preventive, and continuous healthcare from adolescence to older adulthood with our DNP-AGPCNP specialization.

Prepare to play a bigger role in healthcare’s transformation with Walden’s online Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program.

Learn from experienced FNPs as you explore the management of patients across the life span with our DNP Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) specialization.

Manage the health of the youngest patient populations with Walden’s DNP specialization in Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (PNP) Primary Care.

Provide care to patients with mental health disorders and illnesses in Walden’s DNP Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner specialization.

Learn the skills necessary to manage and lead a spectrum of workers, managers, and teams in a global marketplace. Examine the financial implications of conducting business internationally, including how capital investment is undertaken globally and how financial markets and global trade influence investment opportunities.

Today’s human resource (HR) managers do much more than fill positions—they’re strategic partners with a critical seat at the executive table. The DBA program’s Human Resource Management specialization prepares you with the theoretical knowledge, industry insights, and capabilities to be an authoritative voice in this field, whether you’re looking to pursue executive leadership, teaching, or research.

The Homeland Security specialization is designed for leaders in the private and public sectors interested in analyzing homeland security and crisis planning from a business perspective.