I'm back on campus in Ft. Lauderdale this week for an accounting concentration class in the DBA program. I actually graduated in 1996, but I've periodically return to learn new things. This week I'm taking a great class on audit and accounting information systems. Overall, all is well. NSU is continuing to make progress on AACSB accreditation - but there are no promises or guesses when it will come. The new building is fantasic - as is the campus. it is amazing how NSU has developed over the past 16 years. One update comes in doctoral enrollment. At one time NSU had 600 students in the DBA program. Today it is much lower than this - and the target appears to be around 100 doctoral students. This is in keeping with NSU's move towards AACSB. Admission is apparently much tighter than it has been in the past. Regards - Andy
I remember when people laughed at NSU, but it was accredited and that was the important thing IMO. It has come a long ways since it's non-traditional inception and people don't laugh anymore.
No kidding. They have a law school, a medical school and many serious programs. I love their entrepreneurship program, but it is a tad out of my price range.
I wonder if this low enrollment is due to competition or because there is no demand for DBAs. One thing I noticed is the they dropped their DBA in Information Systems, I guess this is due to the low demand of this field nowadays. I like their DBA program but it is just too expensive for the average person. I guess that some people are just taking the NCU's DBA instead.
I am not sure exactly why Huizinga School of Business dropped DBA in Information Systems. However, we were told about five or six years ago (when I was a doctoral student) that there was an ongoing effort by NSU to eliminate program duplication by different schools. SCIS (The Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences) still offers PhD in Information Systems. However, SCIS has dropped EdD in Computer Technology in Education. Perhaps, they dropped the program in order to be in compliance with the university’s duplication elimination guideline.
The PhD in IS is more technical oriented and it does not cover the core business courses. I find the DBA in IS more useful because many schools now want you to teach core courses such as statistics or operations since IS courses might not have enrollment all the time. In addition, with a DBA and a graduate certificate you can teach other business fields such accounting or finance while the PhD in IS is not very flexible for this. I teach IS but now need to teach basic accounting, marketing, operations due to the low enrollment of IS courses so my DBA has been more useful for me.
Reply to RFValue To the contrary - I think this was a conscious decision regarding quality. In NSU's move to AACSB, they determined that 100 students in a doctoral program was an appropriate enrollment level. In the days when they had 600students, NSU was operating programs overseas (Thailand as I remember) and were much more open about enrollment. Today they have significantly tightened their admissions. Regards - Andy