North Dakota State University - Graduate School
Ph.D. in Discipline-Based Education Research (DBER)
Fargo, USA
PhD
DURATION
5 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
STUDY FORMAT
Key Summary
About: The STEM Education programme at North Dakota State University offers a Ph.D. in Discipline-Based Education Research (DBER). Students conduct empirical research to improve STEM teaching and learning in higher education. The interdisciplinary programme covers pedagogy, assessment, curriculum design, and educational research. NDSU is a student-focused land-grant research university in Fargo, ND, with about 2,000 graduate students across 75+ programmes and offers faculty mentorship and professional development.
Career Outcomes: Graduates work in faculty posts, postdoctoral research, curriculum development, assessment, instructional design, policy analysis, consulting. Career opportunities include assistant professor, research scientist, assessment specialist, curriculum developer, policy analyst, and instructional designer.
Students in the Science-Technology-Engineering-Mathematics (STEM) Education program at North Dakota State University conduct and disseminate empirical research to improve STEM learning and teaching in higher education. This unique interdisciplinary program offers a Ph.D.
Coursework centers on:
- graduate-level courses in the discipline area
- a common core of STEM Education courses
- elective courses focused on research training.
An interdisciplinary team of faculty supervise the candidate's dissertation research, which will investigate teaching and learning within/across one or more STEM disciplines.
Although interdisciplinary in nature, graduate students in the STEM Education Ph.D. have an academic home in the STEM department/program of their discipline preference.
