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People who have completed a degree program in educational administration are responsible for managing educational facilities. The most well-known type of career that one might pursue after earning a degree in educational administration would be Principal or Superintendent. The main qualities needed to succeed in this field are organization and leadership.

A degree in educational administration will help to prepare students for these kinds of careers:

• Administrator (Post-Secondary School)
• Business Manager
• Community Education Director
• Curriculum Coordinator
• School Principal
• School System Superintendent

Concentrations in an educational administration degree program include:

• Administration
• Education Policy
• Educational Administration and Catholic School Leadership
• Educational Administration and Leadership
• Gifted Education Administration
• Higher Education Administration
• K-12 School Administration

Here are some examples of the kinds of courses you would take as an educational administration major:

• Administration and Supervision of Special Education
• Administrative Organization and Behavior
• Clinical Experience in School Administration
• Curriculum Development
• Economics of Education
• Educational Statistics
• Evaluation of Services and Programs
• Financing Public School Districts
• Governance and Politics of Education
• Grant Research and Writing
• Human Relations in Educational Management
• Introduction to School Law
• Instructional Practice and Evaluation
• Leadership Theory and Practice
• Legal Aspects of Education
• Policy, Politics, and Public Administration
• Political Economy of Educational Planning
• Public School Finance
• Research Design and Analysis in Education
• School-Community Relations
• School Finance
• School Personnel Management
• Schools and Communities
• Sociology of Higher Education
• Supervision of Instruction
• Theory and Problems in School Management
• The Principalship