I am hopefully almost finished with my masters in history from American Public University. I know about Union Institute & University Union Institute & University (too expensive and not strictly history), University of Florida's in Classical Civilization. Not interested in classical civ. The University of Leicester University of Leicester offers a PhD in Archaeology & Ancient History, but I am not interested in archaeology . The University of South Africa Unisa Online offers a PhD in History, but I am hesitant of the acceptance and credibility in the U.S. with a degree from South Africa . I know about the University of Birmingham, but seems a little on the expensive side. Any ideas on a Ph.D. in History (distance) that isn't expensive.
You're not worried about British schools, but you are about South African schools. What's the difference?
I haven't checked but I'd be very surprised if there weren't at least a couple of Australian programs out there. I'd check Charles Sturt, Deakin and Central Queensland first as they tend to have a lot of DL programs in general. I'm not sure about how much you know of these things but these (all) would be dissertation only, research based PhDs with no coursework.
Unless I missed it, which is quite possible, it says it's only accredited to offer bachelors, masters, and juris doctor degrees. It doesn't say PhDs. -Matt
Per the Faulkner University SACS accreditation page: Level V accreditation includes its two (e.g., PhD Humanities /PhD Biblical Studies) doctoral degree offerings (e.g., "Level V - 3 or fewer Doctoral Degrees") Commission on Colleges http://online.faulkner.edu/programs/doctor-philosophy/ http://online.faulkner.edu/programs/doctor-philosophy-biblical-studies/
That's good, I suppose, but I was actually looking at their own website - Faulkner University - Accreditation They don't mention anything about PhD's there. -Matt
The PhD programs aren't unaccredited. On the contrary, Faulkner stressed the regional accreditation of the Great Books PhD program when it was announced in November 2012: In fact, this announcement -- including the part about SACS accreditation -- was covered in a previous degreeinfo thread: The Faulkner D.Litt is now a SACS accredited PhD! So why doesn't the Faulkner's accreditation page say anything about the PhD programs? Well, if you look at the bottom of the page, it says "© 2012". Maybe they just haven't updated it in a while.