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For higher level student affairs jobs, what is the best PHD degree?

  • I have an MPA and I want to get my PHD/EDD. I was wondering if it is best to get a PHD in Student Affairs/College Personnel Service or Higher Education Administration to gain access to upper level administration jobs in student affairs? I am more passionate about student affairs than any other area of higher education. Yet I am still wondering if Higher Education Administration will make me more marketable? Or is the fact that I have an MPA enough? Thank you in advance for any info you can offer!

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    I don't think it really matters--Student Affairs/College Personnel Service, or Higher Education Administration, or Educational Leadership, they're all good. What matters more, I think, is your experience. By the time you're applying for those higher-level jobs, they're going to look more at your prior positions, and the level of responsibility you've had--how many people you've supervised, the size of the budgets you've managed, etc. For those senior administrative jobs, they want to see a doctorate on your resume, but they also want to see that you've progressed appropriately to more senior-level jobs. (And a lot of faculty won't care, either--they won't have a lot of use for any of those degrees. If it's not a Ph.D. in an academic subject, in their eyes, it's always going to be second-class.)

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I don't think it really matters--Student Affairs/College Personnel Service, or Higher Education Administration, or Educational Leadership, they're all good. What matters more, I think, is your experience. By the time you're applying for those higher-level jobs, they're going to look more at your prior positions, and the level of responsibility you've had--how many people you've supervised, the size of the budgets you've managed, etc. For those senior administrative jobs, they want to see a doctorate on your resume, but they also want to see that you've progressed appropriately to more senior-level jobs. (And a lot of faculty won't care, either--they won't have a lot of use for any of those degrees. If it's not a Ph.D. in an academic subject, in their eyes, it's always going to be second-class.)

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