The CPEHE launched Master’s program in Higher Education Development and Doctoral Program in Education in 1998, which was offered in the Graduate School of Education. Those Graduate programs were later renamed the “Higher Education Studies Course” in 2018 as a result of structural reform of the Graduate School of Education.

With the closure of the CPEHE in September 2022, the five faculty members in charge of the course moved to three different divisions in the Graduate School of Education, the Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, and the Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, however, we are working collaboratively to run the Course.

This Course offers opportunities for students to be exposed to multi-faceted approaches to research on higher education such as educational engineering, educational methodology, educational sociology, and comparative education. They are invited to explore issues in teaching and learning in the university, curriculum design, assessment, educational system, professional development of academic staff, non-academic staff, and student, educational technology, and so on. We aim to offer empirical and/or holistic research and educational experiences so that students completing this course would have the ability to understand fast changing higher education and related issues, and to suggest a way forward.