Our mission is to prepare highly effective higher education administrators and staff professionals who possess the skills and competencies required to meet the varied challenges facing two-year, four-year, and graduate institutions and communities today, and to help shape our institutions in the future.

For full consideration, Applications must be received by January 10th. MEd applications received after January 10th will be considered on a space available basis.  FMI about doctoral study, click here.

We hope our website answers any questions you might have. If not, please do not hesitate to contact us. We welcome your questions, comments, and suggestions.

Announcements of accomplishments by students and alumni are regularly added to our program brag sheet! 

Finally, check out some recent books by HIED faculty:

Business Practices in Higher Education: A Guide for Today’s Administrators (2010), by Mark Kretovics, associate professor

Reconstructing Policy in Higher Education: Feminist Poststructural Perspective (2010), co-editted by Susan Iverson, assistant professor

The Challenge of Bologna (2010), by Paul Gaston, Trustee Professor

Public School Law, 6th ed. (2009). Stephen B. Thomas, Nelda H. Cambron-McCabe, & Martha M. McCarthy (Allyn & Bacon); the Chinese edition of this text was published in 2010, by Martha M. McCarthy, Nelda H. Cambron-McCabe, & Stephen B. Thomas.