The Off-Campus Educational Administration Program offered in Oak Brook offers graduate programs that embrace the broad array of administrative and supervisory positions in education. The Oak Brook General Administrative Endorsement (Type 75) cohort program is designed to provide educators with the knowledge, skills, and experiences needed to meet the challenges and demands of contemporary building-level leaders, including principals, assistant principals, deans, and department chairs. It is built around a concept of educational leaders that envisions the administrator as an active learner and a facilitator of learning. Leaders are seen as thoughtful professionals who are reflective by inclination, nurture and support a community of shared values based on democratic principles, and empower others to lead.

U.S. News and World Report ranks the UIUC Educational Administration program 14th out of over 500 educational leadership programs in the nation.

The Educational Administration Program at Oak Brook is designed to meet both degree requirements for the UIUC College of Education and certification requirements for the State of Illinois General Administrative Endorsement (Type 75). To be eligible for admission into the cohort, applicants must have completed a minimum of one year of full-time teaching or have acceptable school service personnel experience. Through the Oak Brook cohort, students have the choice of two different degree options.