International & Multicultural Education, EdD
Understand education within diverse sociocultural, linguistic, political, and economic contexts. Acquire skills you need in scholarship, teaching, and advocacy. Graduate ready to advocate for social justice as a curriculum specialist, become an educational researcher, or work for a more just future teaching at a university.
Accepting for Fall 2025
Program Highlights
Are you a working professional?
Our Teaching Weekend schedule is designed to support your schedule.
Want to do an apprenticeship?
We offer apprenticeship for becoming social justice scholars, practitioners, and advocates.
Interested in research?
We'll teach you research methods with a focus on community engaged scholarship.
Looking for a diverse community?
USF is #1 in diversity among national universities (U.S. News & World Report 2025).
The Focus Is On Engaged Scholarship
The program is grounded in five main conceptual areas five main conceptual areas to give you the skills to create a meaningful impact on local and global communities.
- critical social theory and schooling
- intersectionality of race, class, nation, language, gender and sexuality in education
- human rights and social movements
- international and comparative education
- alternative research paradigms
Want To Take a Concentration and Minor?
Students can choose from a range of courses in IME or concentration in either Racial Justice Education, Human Rights Education, or Language and Culture. Students may also complement their major coursework with a minor from outside of their program.
You Can Add an Administrative Services Credential
The Transformative School Leadership Administrative Services Credential can be combined with our Doctor of International and Multicultural Education. This program is designed to prepare future principals, assistant principals, teacher leaders, curriculum coaches, specialists, and district administrators for the demands of contemporary school leadership.
Kate Zanoni '19
Connect With A Student Ambassador
I would recommend prospective students to speak to both faculty and current students at the School of Education. In addition, sitting in a course will also offer a preview of what the content of the courses are like and gain a better understanding of the learning community at USF."
Kate Zanoni '19
Our Stories
School of Education
San Francisco, CA 94117
Monday–Friday
8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.