For those of you in the WNMU MAIS.....

Are you planning to go for a doctorate after you finish your WNMU MAIS degree?

 

Yes! I'm putting in applications right now.

 

For a doctorate in English?

Foreign or domestic?

DL or on-campus?

Hope you don't mind all the questions.

 

This is for anyone in the MAIS program: If you go on for a doctorate, would you get it in interdisciplinary studies, or in one of your concentrations? And would it be difficult to get into a doctoral program in one area in which you had only 18 hours in your masters?

 

I am planning on applying to the EdD in Educational Administration at the College of William and Mary after I finish my WNMU MAIS. The WNMU program has nothing to do with education, however. My concentrations are history and political science. My other MS is in education, so it's not like I'm going into an EdD with no background.

Not all PhD programs require a masters in the subject. Last summer I talked with the graduate advisor for the University of Delaware history program. Their program allows you to enter the PhD program with a bachelors degree. It's the same program regardless of if you have a masters or not. That's just one example though. I figure if programs will let you in without a masters, then I suppose they'll "let you in" if you just have 18 graduate hours.

-Matt

 

Thanks, Matt. Do you know of any Ph.D programs in English that you can get into without a master's?

 

What is your BA in, Michael?

 

Now I do not know how true this is, but someone told me you can get into a PhD program with two closely related Bachelors.

 

My bachelor's is from Excelsior College (formerly Regents College). I had 24 hours in English, 18 in sociology, and 15 in philosophy and religion.

 

I'm afraid not. I know ODU has an online PhD in English, but I don't know if you need a masters or not. A friend of mine applied to the program and didn't get it. She had an MA in English from a B&M school with a 4.0 gpa and teaching experience. It seems like that program is rather competitive, so I'm not sure if anyone without an MA would get in even if they allowed it.

-Matt

 

It's an interdisciplinary doctorate program (English and Humanities), domestic (USA), on-campus only.