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This study sought to determine the current status of programs in universities in the United States that offer doctoral degrees in education administration/leadership and to identify recent trends in educational leadership programming. The 127 institutions (of 194 invited to participate) responded to a survey and provided data on admissions criteria, orientation activities, instructional delivery patterns, and program exit criteria. A summary profile describing the typical doctoral degree program in educational administration/leadership was developed using this baseline data. The average doctoral program admits 18 student annually and requires an admission profile that includes the following: a minimum score of 1000 on the verbal and quantitative subtests of the Graduate Record Examination, an undergraduate grade point average (GPA) of 3.00, a graduate GPA of approximately 3.23, a writing sample that includes a