If you hold a master's degree in education, (excluding educational leadership) this degree is your next step. Your course work will provide conceptual and theoretical knowledge. It will also include practical field experience.
This online Educational Leadership Education Specialist degree leads to full Commonwealth of Virginia Licensure in Educational Administration and Supervision, Pre-K-12.** It is a cohort-based program.
Program themes include:
Leadership for school improvement
Data analysis and decision making
Strategic human resource and fiscal management
Establishing and leading professional collaborative communities
Careers in Educational Leadership
Assistant Principal
Principal
Superintendent
Department Lead
Curriculum Leader
Lead Teacher
Curriculum Supervisor
Data Instructional Leader
September 2025
Darden College of Education and Professional Studies
4301 Hampton Boulevard,
NORFOLK,
Virginia,
23529, United States
To be eligible for an Administration and Supervision preK-12 license in the Commonwealth of Virginia, you must have completed three years of successful, full-time experiences in a public or accredited nonpublic school in an instructional personnel position with licensure as a teacher or school counselor.
TOEFL iBT of 79 (550 paper based); IELTS overall band of 6.5; GRE Verbal Reasoning of 152, a GCSE or GCE score of "O" level pass in English; CPE grade of A, B, C.
*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.