So years later, I am still looking for the right PhD. I have been keeping an open mind about the for-profits where in the past, I have been pretty against them. The trouble is, I read reviews about them and have consistently found the following to be complaints: 1. The schools seem to deliberately slow down the prospectus exercise and require students to continue to pay for credits to work on them. In some cases, the students claim to receive literally NO feed back for an entire enrolled course. Some say that this process carries on for years. 2. Faculty change so rapidly that students have changes in committee members and "methodologists" so often, nothing gets done, further dragging on the process. 3. Dissertations and/or their prospectuses are not approved, over and over. Students continue to rack up tuition bills in excess of tens of thousands of dollars more than their they expect their programs to cost. Can someone set my mind at ease? I don't have to attend an Ivy to be happy. I am not afraid of any stigma that might come with an online education. I AM afraid of being ruined financially, with the kind of debt that has no ability to be discharged, should my "investment" become a major, life-stopping liability.
you could just skip the for profit PhDs and go for something elsewhere. you could do a University of South Africa PhD or a PhD program from a UK University.
Or a PhD program online through a U.S. university that's public or not-profit. There are a lot of them now.
