Can you transfer a completed dissertation?

Hello everyone!

I completed an Ed.D. program several years ago and was wondering if it is possible to transfer my completed dissertation to another doctorate degree program. I have received acceptance into 2 different Ph.D. programs, both willing to transfer a significant amount of my doctoral degree credits into my program of study. Unfortunately, I have not received a clear answer whether this could be approved. Does anyone have any experience with transferring a completed dissertation into another doctorate degree program?

Thank you!

Cane

 

I have no experience, but I don't think you could because that is considering double dipping. You are lucky that they are taking lot of credit for for the new program. So the two schools accepted you assume you have experience to perform research; therefore, you need to do new research to receive your Ph.D. If you use the same dissertation that consider self plagiarism.

 

Without knowing the specific schools involved (many programs will have specific rules online) it will be hard to say for sure but I think TEK is right. To me it makes sense because otherwise a person couls shop their dissertation around to a bunch of schools and collect 5 or 6 PhDs all based on the same piece of research.

 

If you have an EdD I would assume you are an educated person. What do you think? Besides, what you learn from a second doctorate degree if you transferred everything?

Think of this job interview:
Q - what was the topic of research from your EdD?
A - BREAKING BARRIERS: A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF THE EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONAL EXPERIENCES OF LATINO MALES
Q - sounds interesting...and the second doctorate degree, what was the topic of research?
A - ummmm.....BREAKING BARRIERS: A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF THE EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONAL EXPERIENCES OF LATINO MALES
Q - ....how original...

Now you should know any dissertation requires an ORIGINAL BODY OF WORK. How is copying your work original?


note - I just Googled EdD dissertations and picked one at random.

 

1. When you completed your dissertation, were you awarded a doctoral degree?

2. What is the name of the university?

 

Two takes on this.

1) You perform some type of meta-analysis where you reference your original work as one of the group of studies you are examining. That way a great deal of your literature review could be from the same sources (as well as new ones). You should at least re-write the literature review.

2) You take your original work and update it via a new research effort. I saw an example of this where a student essentially duplicated her advisor's Dissertation, added a few new questions to the survey and earned her PhD. Again in this case the student's lit review was so close to the advisors, I could not believe my eyes.

Good luck.

 

What if...this time instead of Latino Males...the study is on Latina Females.

Hello new dissertation! :banana:

 

What if I complete all but one of the courses for an MPA at say, the University of Missouri, and send the transcripts to Excelsior. Then, I go back and complete one more class at Missouri and one class at Excelsior. Now I have two MPAs!

Aside from the fact that this would require a certain degree of academic dishonesty what exactly would it accomplish? I like Randell's example. Even if an employer never asks about your dissertation(s) you are hoping to get two degrees awarded for the same work. I appreciate that in the life-hack sense. But in the academic sense you've already been granted a doctorate for that work. Want another one? Do something else.

 

Thus far, the original poster has made only one post.

 

Can he duplicate the original post and count it as two?

 

And based on the user name appears to be connected to "The U" -- the University of Miami, which gives me a graduate of Virginia Tech enough of a reason to say "Go Hokies!"

 

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