If the Doctorate of Philosophy is a PhD, why isn’t the Doctorate of Business Management a BAD? PhD is the Latin abbreviation, standardized back when use of Latin was a symbol of the well educated. DBAs came about after that was no longer really the case. Interestingly, though, no less an institution than Oxford calls it a DPhil, not a PhD. Oh ya, also, what are the opinions about if RA vs NA will matter in 20 years? I think so. No one is ever going to look at ACCSCT schools and equate them with even Tier 4 regionally accredited schools. Even if not, though, then something else will have risen to take its place in distinguishing the wheat from the chaff. -=Steve=-
