Well, first of all, I would like to thank you all about your help regarding my search of an affordable doctoral degree in business administration. I am very grateful! I guess you will be glad to learn that I decided to follow your advices and I am going to enroll into an ACCREDITED DBA! I have chosen NCU DBA! I need your help about the tuition fee. As a European citizen, I don't understand the US system Could you please tell how much I will pay on a semester basis? Let me explain you... - I will take one course per semester. - I have to complete 81 credits (not less in my case) - 57 credits are at 12-weeks in length, which should take you approximately 4 3/4 to 5 years. 24 credits are at 16-weeks in length, which should take you approximately 2 years to complete. TOTAL: Approximately 5 - 7 years to complete. The cost per credit hour is $475. The cost of 81 credit hours would be $38,475, not including textbooks. The cost per course is $1,425. Coud you PLEASE help me? I would like to know how much I will pay per semester? Sabine
If you take one class per semester, it will cost you $1425 + the textbook (around $100) = $1525 (approximately). However, I have found a way to buy the textbooks for pennies on the dollar by searching for used textbooks on the internet. However, you have to make sure you buy the correct book, so it's best to go by the ISBN of the syllabus!!! In one case, the textbook was $111 (new), but I found one for $7 (used) and it was in tip top shape!!!
Thank you so much... This is what I thought! But see, there's a problem... The cost of 81 credit hours would be $38,475, according to the admission advisor. She also said me that it should take me 5 - 7 years to complete the degree if I take 1 course per semester. But 38 475 : 1500 * 2 = 12 years to complete the degree!!! This is what I don't understand... Can you help me please?
USD38475.00 (total tuition) / USD1425.00 (per course) / 4 (courses per year) = 6.75 ( or 6 3/4) years to complete.
The NCU doctoral-level tuition-cost-calculations assume that most people have already completed a Masters degree, so the cost of 30 Masters level credits is deteducted from the total cost of $38,475 that you calculated. The most credits NCU will accept from a Masters degree is 30 credits. Since each credit is $475, the total cost for 30 credits is $14,250 less or: $475 x 30 = $14,250 so $38,475 - $14,250 = $24,225 If you do not have a Masters degree, then yes, your total tuition for 81 credits is going to be about $38,475 or $475 x 81 = $38,475 Is that a lot of money??? You bet your bottom dollar it is!!! But if you compare the NCU tuition rates to the other regionally accredited online doctoral institutions, it is about the least expensive one on the market (that I have been able to find). At the Masters level, there are some less expensive alternatives, so if you're penny pinching, I would recommend that you get a regionally accredited Masters degree from elsewhere and then transfer those credits over to NCU if you want to get a doctoral degree. Inflation is going to cause costs to continually go up -- everywhere. It seems to be a non-stop process. And if NCU becomes a firmly entrenched institution, which remains to be seen, then their tuition rates will invariably rise, possibly to the same level as all the other overly expensive doctoral programs. That's speculation on my part and only time will tell. One advantage of begining in a newly created school is cheaper tuition rates, at least initially. As an example, look at how much NCU's tuition rates have risen since they achieved RA status.
Thank you all... I don't understand the tuition fee!!!!! If I take one course per semester (about 1500 USD), it will cost 3000 USD per year (2 courses per year). So it will take me about 12 years to achieve my degree????
Don't forget to carry the 1... In this case, it is not the US system that is so hard to understand. NCU's scheduling is unusual. Expect there to be 48 weeks of class per year and four weeks of break; probably two weeks around Christmas/New Year, one in April and one in August. (48 is a very nice number as it divides evenly by 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, and 12... and eveyone likes a little time off now and then.) Let's start with the 57 credits @ 12 weeks per course. <search target="NCU_website"> It looks like their courses are worth three credits each. 57 credits / 3 credits per course = 19 courses 19 courses * 12 weeks per course = 228 weeks 228 weeks / 48 weeks per year = 4.75 years You should expect to take 4 courses per year and pay for 12 credits per year. The admissions representative said 4 3/4 - 5 years. This checks. Now, let's take the 24 credits @ 16 weeks per course. Here, we have an estimate of two years, or 12 credits per year. 48 weeks per year / 16 weeks per course = 3 courses per year It looks like these will be 4 credits per course, and you will pay for 12 credits per year here, as well. USD 38,475 / 81 credits = USD 475 per credit 12 credits per year * 475 per credit = USD 5,700 per year. If you make good progress, you should be done in just under seven years. --- A typical full-time graduate course load is 9 - 12 credits per semester for fall and spring semesters and 3 - 6 credits in the summer, for a total of 21 - 30 credits per year. The NCU DBA is a part-time program. Converting to dollars-per-semester is somewhat arbitrary, since most of your courses are not distributed among semester-length spans of time. --- What do you plan to do with your degree? If you are going to use it in Europe, make sure that your local legislation does not require your US alma mater to be accredited by AACSB. I recall reading somewhere that this is the case in Germany, but I do not recall under what circumstances this is true. However, if you can arrange to have a US bank account and a Social Security Number, you should be able to find work teaching online for NCU, University of Phoenix, DeVry, Kaplan, et.al.
It's easy. NCU is on 12 week semesters. You may finish the semester as quickly as time permits. Thus, you have the possibility of finishing a 12 week course in only eight weeks or less, if you are motivated. I guess you could do it even quicker, but with a full-time job, I don't see how that would be possible. For my Masters degree, we were on 8 week semesters at the state university, so this is not unheard of. To start a course, you must sign up by the 21st of any month, but it will not begin until the month ends. Saavy?
Okay but how much I will pay per year if I take ONE course per semester? I have to complete 81 credits in my case.
Re: Don't forget to carry the 1... The legal situation in Germany is somewhat comparable to the situation in Oregon - with one very important difference: Oregon has a negative list of not recognised universities, Germany has a positive list! Every AACSB accredited university is on this list, and a few other so called "well known universities" - most of them state universities. In fact there are special lists for every discipline! For example, the list for engineering is completely different. (This list is identical to the list of ABET accredited degrees.) Unfortunately most of these lists are unknown to the German public, and they are also a little bit different from one German state to another. Therefor it's important for German residents to ask the authorities and make sure that a degree from an US university is really recognised.
If you do not accelerate your learning and if you stick strictly to the 12 week semester format, then you will take four classes per year: 4 x $1425 = $5700 per year.
