Help me figure out my options please

Most of you guys and gals are much more intelligent than I am, therefore I would like to ask for you folks for some help. As you can see in my signature, I am currently pursuing an Educational Specialist degree with a concentration in history. I have seen the discuss here many times about the lack of an online RA history doctoral program, so that is where my dilemma starts. If I were interested in making the jump after I complete my Ed.S to a doctoral program (exclusively online if possible) what would my options be? I am very open to suggestions. Thanks so much.

 

Not online but if you are still in Alabama you might want to check out the 'Bama offerings:

http://academicoutreach.ua.edu/page.cfm?page=degrees&sub_page=3

the Gadsden campus isn't that far from Jax State.


Otherwise:

Cheapest PhD in Education

 

That would be an option however I now live about 2.5 hours from Tuscaloosa. The program requires extensive visits to the main campus there.

 

You haven't said what it is that you hope a doctoral degree will do for you but I'm guessing that you'd like to teach History of the college level. Have you considered going outside the USA for a doctoral degree?

 

Well I really have no ambition to teach history at the university level. My aspirations reach only as high as the community college which I am already doing. I am really interested in the doctoral level degree for the pay raise I would receive at my current job and the satisfaction of having completed such a program. I guess what I was really wondering is could I do say an Ed.D in something other than history? I know that history is not something available online, therefore I wondered if it would be possible to get into a doctoral program in education technology, leadership, etc?

 

Mississippi State has a weekend residency program:

Community College leadership Program

It looks like most of the classes are completed via one weekend a month with research and dissertation via online.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

EdD

PhD

 

OK, well to me community college is "college." So I brush that off and then point out that there aren't that many EdD programs either. I asked directly about non-US programs and you didn't answer so I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that you're not interested in non-US degrees. There are doctoral programs in History available. They're just not from US universities. Anyway, the Nebraska program is rumored to accept 3-5 new students per year. To me you seem to be between that rock and that very hard place.

 

Well, as far as your comment, I make a distinction between college and university. Something lost in translation. As far as non-US degrees, I have little interest. Thanks for your help.