Quick Facts

Quick Facts

1. The Department of Educational Leadership has been granting educational administration degrees since 1936. We were known as the Department of Educational Administration and Supervision until 1989, when we adopted our current name. 
2. Our programs are ranked the 20th best in the United States for leadership development for four straight years. The national ranking is awarded by Executive Leadership Corporation in its monthly magazine Leadership Excellence. 
3. Our department offers a blended (online and face-to-face) doctoral cohort program at the Ball State downtown Indianapolis Center. 
4. Department faculty have published in the following journals: Educational Administration Quarterly, Educational Leadership, Journal of Law and Education, Journal of School Business Management, Thresholds in Education, Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal, Educational Research Quarterly, Journal of Technology Studies, American School Board Journal, West's Education Law Reporter, and Journal of Thought. 
5. Almost one-third of current Indiana superintendents received their EdS or EdD degrees through us. This makes Ball State University the state leader. 
6. More than 20 percent of current Indiana principals received their license through our master’s or licensure program. 
7. We offer the MAE and EdD in educational administration and supervision and the EdS in school superintendency. 
8. We offer our entire master's degree program online. Students choose where they will do their two-semester internship. 
9. Most educational administration majors are part-time students. Our largest enrollment occurs in the summer. We have approximately 800 graduate students. 
10. Our department has the largest distance education master's degree program at Ball State. 
11. Our department has six graduate assistants. 
12. Our department sponsors four Study Councils made up of 120 public school superintendents across Indiana (approximately 24 percent of all Indiana school corporations). 
13. Our principal and superintendent internship program is very intensive and is a "national model." Intern enrollment has grown from 159 (2005) to 270 (2011). 
14. Our department participates in the superintendent search process with the other major state universities in assisting school corporations as they select superintendents. 
15. Our department has eight full-time faculty members, 12 adjunct professors, and an administrative coordinator.