Doctoral Concentration
The Educational Policy & Planning program (EPP) prepares the next
generation of professors and policy-research leaders who will
significantly and positively change public education.
The EPP is a multi-disciplinary doctoral program (with Sociology, Economics, Political Science, and Public Policy) offered through the University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Educational Administration. The mission of this doctoral program is to prepare a new generation of educational policy and planning specialists for policy research and professorship roles in education who:
- Create deeper meanings, through high quality research, of the complexity of schools affecting student learning
- Research and advocate for the implementation of different approaches to enhance student learning for all children
- Develop cutting-edge knowledge in the field of education policy
- Approach policy research from multidisciplinary prespectives
- Learn the most sophisticated policy research techniques and practice of policy as well as the historical, cultural, economic, and social conditions that may affect student learning
Program Plan
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EPP Doctoral If you were admitted and started the program in Fall 2012 or later, use this one |
EPP Doctoral If you were admitted and started the program before Fall 2012, use this one |
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