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Spring 2025
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May 19, 2025Jun 16, 2025
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Spring 2026
Jan 5, 2026Feb 9, 2026
Mar 16, 2026
Summer 2026
May 18, 2026Jun 15, 2026
Fall 2026
Aug 10, 2026Aug 17, 2026
Sep 21, 2026
Oct 26, 2026
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Take your organization to a higher level with an Ed.D. in Organizational Leadership
Meaningful change is an organization’s most powerful tool. The catalyst behind that tool? A great leader. Franklin’s Doctor of Education in Organizational Leadership with a focus in Organizational Leadership (Ed.D.-Organizational Leadership) can help you evolve into a more innovative, influential and impactful leader. Besides learning vital leadership, research and analytical skills, Franklin’s Ed.D.-Organizational Leadership will help you expand your capacity as a master change agent. With Franklin’s Ed.D.-Organizational Leadership online degree program, you’ll build upon your current experience and develop enhanced skills that empower you to successfully drive transformation.
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Program Overview
Learn with more breadth and depth to grow your leadership skills and abilities
With Franklin’s Ed.D.-Organizational Leadership degree program, you’ll build a strong foundation for your work as a scholar-practitioner within even the most complex organizations. You’ll develop and hone your capabilities, preparing you to provide strong, effective, forward-thinking leadership across a wide range of organizational leadership roles. And, as an Ed.D.-Organizational Leadership student, you’ll gain valuable experience applying research skills and leadership theory and practice to drive positive organizational cultural and teamwork results.
Guide your organization – and career – to a more dynamic future
Everything evolves. Systems. Organizations. Even people. Organizational leadership is essential to ensuring that this evolution is carefully curated to promote success. With Franklin’s online Doctor of Education in Organizational Leadership program, you’ll consider both historical and modern-day leadership concepts, theories and constructs. And you’ll conduct in-depth scholarly research to help you translate these transformational, servant and authentic leadership theories into practice for the real world.
You’ll also be challenged to assess your own leadership strengths and weaknesses. More importantly, you’ll use your findings to develop a self-directed action plan to level-up your leadership competencies to personal growth and professional success.
Improve your research-based ability to effectively influence positive culture and behavior change
When it comes to organizational effectiveness, there’s no room for complacency. Instead, the bar must rise. Organizations rely on progressive leaders who set a vision, identify opportunities and clear the way for maximizing growth and success. Key to bringing this ideal to reality is the development of a healthy organizational culture. As part of your Ed.D.-Organizational Leadership studies, you’ll research the fundamental ideas and constructs behind organizational culture and behavior. Through critical thinking, analysis, research writing and evaluation, you’ll then develop a research-ready proposal designed to influence and transform organizational culture and behavior.
Differentiate yourself with a widely recognized and respected credential
To build a standout career, you must stand out among other leaders. Earning your Ed.D. in Organizational Leadership can help you do just that. Not only is Franklin’s Doctor of Education in Organizational Leadership a widely recognized credential, it’s also a respected one that will distinguish you from other high performers and widen your career path. Not only are graduates of Franklin’s Ed.D.-Organizational Leadership online degree program effective leaders, they’re also poised to coach and mentor others into their own leadership roles.
Succeed with our unique dissertation structure
If there’s such a thing as a no-fear dissertation process, Franklin has it. We’ve intentionally designed a dissertation structure to help you complete your dissertation step-by-step, beginning with your enrollment in the program. We’ve also built-in faculty mentoring and guidance, and peer-to-peer support so you’re never left to “figure it out” on your own.
Throughout the Ed.D. Organizational Leadership program, you’ll develop important research skills and the necessary writing prowess to complete and publish a dissertation in practice (DiP) as the culmination of your studies. Your DiP will showcase your ability to solve a challenge within the workplace using action research. As a part of the (DiP), you will test your hypotheses in the real world, or based on your findings, document a process to implement your solution.
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Your Best Value Doctor of Education in Organizational Leadership (Ed.D.)
Finish Formula
2 years of coursework + 1 year for the dissertation.
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98% of graduating students would recommend Franklin to their family, friends and/or colleagues.
Source: Franklin University, Office of Career Development Student Satisfaction Survey (Summer 2023)
Faculty Support
Be mentored + guided by doctoral faculty advisor from first term through candidacy.
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Unlike for-profit universities, Franklin invests in student success, not shareholder gain.
Unlike for-profit universities, Franklin invests in student success, not shareholder gain.