Education Specialist degrees consist of anywhere from 30 to 65 credit hours and can take anywhere from just over a year up to two years or beyond. Of course, the time it takes you to complete any degree depends on how many classes you take per term and if you take any time off along the way.
The Ed.S. in Educational Leadership, Superintendency online program at A-State requires 30 credit hours and students can complete the program in as few as 18 months.
It took 18 months to finish. It went by really, really quickly — and then you've got your degree. You have to push and you have to do it. You take two classes a semester, but they're not on top of each other. You can do anything for five or seven weeks. You are not going to class once a week for a whole semester, so that was a nice part of it.
– Laura Hunt, online Ed.S. in Educational Leadership, Superintendency graduate