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Walden’s doctoral programs provide a path for lifelong professional and personal achievement.
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25 Degree programs and over 150 specializations available to support your goals.
Highly transferable skills and curriculum that are grounded in practice.
Complete suite of services dedicated to the completion of your dissertation and academic success.
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Engage in realistic leadership simulations while learning to communicate technical and business concepts to diverse audiences.
Explore best practices for using data to drive strategic decision-making. Review mechanisms to prevent or mitigate cybercrimes.
Apply up to 26 credits toward your PhD program, significantly reducing the time to completion and your total cost.
Prepare to research, design, implement, and evaluate cutting-edge educational programs for nurses. This specialization is designed to help future nurse educators lead cutting-edge education programs through coursework focusing on distance education principles and by using multimedia technology to facilitate learning.
Analyze principles that impact healthcare decisions and practice as well as the theoretical foundations of governance and public policy. As a student in this specialization, you will prepare to manage and implement healthcare programs and services by applying best practices in leadership, ethics, and strategic planning.
Customize an interdisciplinary focus area that reflects your professional goals and interests and helps you work more effectively with diverse populations and teams. Choose three courses from the four other PhD in Nursing focus areas: education, healthcare administration, leadership, and public health policy.
Learn new ways to work effectively with diverse workforces and communities. By completing this specialization, you will build competencies in organizational change management, team building, mediation, collaboration, and systems thinking and planning.
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.
Explore the changes in organizational innovation agility and develop leadership strategies informed by design thinking.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Gain an understanding of the relationship between health, health behavior, and human development. You’ll learn to apply the latest theories and research in developmental psychology to real-world situations in the healthcare industry or within human and social services.
Prepare yourself as a leader and administrator in the field of human development. The Administration and Leadership specialization focuses on the latest theories and research in developmental psychology and equips you with knowledge and skills in the areas of organizational behavior, leadership development, and consulting.
Apply the latest theories and research on child development, abnormal psychology, behavior analysis, and health issues affecting children and adolescents.
Gain knowledge of how to conduct both quantitative and qualitative research, as well as how to critically review the latest research in human development.
The Self-Designed specialization lets you design your own program of study. This offering provides you with maximum flexibility to design a program that closely matches your personal and professional goals.
Focus on how cultures impact human development, explains international perspectives on human development, and describes how current global crises such as terrorism, genocides, mass migration, refugee crises impact development including health and mental health of global population under crises.
Apply developmental theories and the latest research in human development to the science of learning and instruction.
Gain a broad understanding of developmental psychology and how you can apply its principles across the lifespan.
Extend your research skills beyond our core requirements. Coursework includes survey research, tests/measurement, advanced mixed-methods analysis, and multivariate analysis.
This specialization is ideal if you’re interested in teaching adult learners, particularly through online instruction.
In recent years, online education has become increasingly commonplace as more and more universities put their courses online. In a 2015 survey conducted by Walden University’s Office of Institutional Research and Assessment, 89% of surveyed employers of Walden graduates reported that they are satisfied or very satisfied with the Walden graduate employed at their organization. When deciding where to earn your doctoral degree online, be sure to choose an accredited institution.
When you earn a doctorate, you will be well prepared for career advancement and new opportunities. Because only a very small percentage of the U.S. population holds a doctoral degree, which is the highest educational attainment possible, you’ll be in an elite group of achievers. Earning your doctorate can also position you for salary increases, give you highly marketable skills, help you become a true expert in your field, and better position you for leadership roles.
The professional doctorate and PhD degrees are considered terminal degrees, meaning you have achieved the highest formal degree in the field. A PhD is an academic degree focused on original research, data analysis, and the evaluation of theory. A professional doctorate focuses on applying research to practical problems, formulating solutions to complex issues, and designing effective professional practices within your field.
If you’ve made the decision to earn your degree, you may be wondering how you’ll keep up with your online education while balancing work and family commitments. Time management is an important place to start—and these strategies are surprisingly effective. Follow the tips that work best for you:
Academic residencies, skills labs, and pre-practica are face-to-face or virtual learning experiences that align with your online coursework to enhance your skill development, scholarship, and professional practice. Required for most doctoral programs, residencies also provide students with the opportunity to collaborate and network with other students, staff, and faculty members. Academic residencies can be held virtually or at any location around the world.
Procrastination can get the best of many of us when it comes to competing a dissertation or capstone project. So, how do you position yourself for success? Consider these best practices:
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