From PhDs to Professional Doctorates

Antioch University offers a range of doctoral degrees designed to serve inspired graduate students who want to make a difference across the country and globe.

As you consider your own interests in an advanced degree, here are some things to think about:

What’s the Difference?

PhD is designed to prepare graduates for research and teaching roles. Graduates of our PhD programs have demonstrated the ability to use research skills to create original knowledge that contributes to research, theory, and practice in a field.

A Professional Doctorate is a professional degree designed for practitioners pursuing educational leadership roles. A graduate from Antioch’s professional doctorate programs demonstrates the ability to synthesize and apply knowledge to a field. 

We encourage prospective students to consider a program’s emphasis on research, practice, or both. 

Doctoral Programs at Antioch

PhD in Leadership & Change

Antioch’s distinctive interdisciplinary PhD brings together a global community of scholar-practitioners who study the research, scholarship, and practice of leading positive change that furthers in organizations and communities.
The program's stellar, internationally renowned faculty work in a highly personalized fashion with the students who engage in both a scholarly informed change project as well as original research that explores the thorny issues in their multi-sector fields of practice.
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PhD in Environmental Studies

Founded on the conviction that theory and practice go hand-in-hand and that our most essential research questions arise from integrating professional experiences and scholarship.
Students study with faculty who bridge disciplinary and methodological boundaries, who model the integration of scholarship and practice, who emphasize the role of service, and who are recognized locally, nationally, and internationally.
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PhD in Counselor Education & Supervision

The low-residency PhD program is a 72-credit CACREP-accredited doctoral degree program designed for counselors.
PhD students who are currently counselors and seek to enhance their professional competencies in research and evaluation, supervision, teaching, leadership/advocacy, and multicultural-sensitive counseling practice.
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EdD in Educational & Professional Practice

Built for professionals who use educational practices in the service of social, economic, and environmental justice, in schools and beyond.
Students study in one of 8 specializations with an accomplished, diverse, and caring faculty who will provide guidance through a transdisciplinary curriculum that integrates scholarship and practice.
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PsyD in Clinical Psychology

APA-accredited PsyD programs in Keene, NH, and Seattle, WA, prepare graduates for multiple roles in the expanding world of clinical psychology
Doctoral students areas of study include not only therapy and assessment, but also supervision, management, applied research, administration, consultation, and public policy.
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PhD in Couple & Family Therapy

The COAMFTE-accredited PhD in Couple and Family Therapy prepares graduates for academic, leadership, supervision, and research careers.
This doctoral program focuses on research training, and as a degree in CFT, there is also a clinical training component. In everything we do, we emphasize principles of social justice, and our students learn about ways to apply social justice principles in research, teaching and supervision, and clinical work.
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