PHD in Education - cheapest RA

National Louis University's EdD in Adult and Continuing Education www.nl.edu/graduate/adult_education.cfm is mentioned in the short-residency section of Bears' Guide (BG15, 164-165; BG16, 176). From the website itself: "Classes meet eight weekends during the year and in three two-week summer institutes." It might be of value for those that can make the residencies. I was, of course, in error to include the other programs. Sorry.

 

Yeah, that's my issue. I liked their admissions process too. They didn't rely on the GRE (in fact they don't require it). Instead, they used a portfolio and interview process.

I thought that they took a cohort every year. I didn't know it was biannually. Oh well.

 

From the Great State of Indiana

Indiana Wesleyan University www.indwes.edu offers an EdD in Organizational Leadership. At $590/hour, this 51-hour program runs a total of $30,090.

Purdue University www.purdue.edu offers a Cohort PhD in Educational Administration. They emphasize that, while they use online techno;ogies, they do not consider this to be an online degree. The tuition portion of their website was a bit clunky, but tuition appears to be $265.60 for in-staters and $738.05 for out-of-staters. At those rates, this 63-hour doctorate runs a tally of $16,732.80 for in-staters and $46,497.15 for out-of-staters.

 

From the Great State of Massachusetts

Lesley University www.lesley.edu offers the PhD in Educational Studies/Adult Learning. At $425/hour, this 45-hour program will cost you $19,125.

 

From the Great State of Minnesota

Capella University www.capella.edu offers the PhD in Curriculum and Instruction, Educational Psychology, Instructional Design for Online Learning, K-12 Studies in Education, Leadership in Educational Administration, Leadership in Higher Education, Post-Secondary and Adult Education, Professional Studies in Education, Special Education Leadership, and Training and Performance Improvement. At $437/hour, this 120-hour program runs $52,440.

Walden University www.waldenu.edu EdD in Administrative Leadership for Teaching and Learning and Teacher Leadership as well as the PhD in Adult Education Leadership, Community College Leadership, Early Childhood Education, Educational Technology, Higher Education, K-12 Educational Leadership, Self-Designed, and Special Education. Tuition for the EdD is $645/hour, making this 54-hour program $34,830, while tuition for the PhD is $4,175/term for 8 to 10 terms, for a total of $33,400-$41,750.

 

From the Great State of Mississippi

Mississippi State University www.msstate.edu offers the PhD in Community College Leadership. Tuition is $274/hour for in-staters and $634.75/hour for out-of-staters, making this 90-hour program $24,660 for in-staters and $57,127.50 for out-of-staters.

 

From the Great State of Montana

The University of Montana www.umt.edu offers an EdD in Educational Leadership. Tuition is $240.70 in-state and $577.55 out-of-state, making this 53-hour program $12,757.10 for in-staters and $30,610.15 for out-of-staters.

 

From the Great State of Nebraska

The University of Nebraska Lincoln www.unl.edu offers both the EdD and PhD in Educational Studies with concentration in Educational Leadership & Higher Education. The program is not described as residential or non-residential but rather the student is free to take courses residentially, non-residentially, or some of each. This program is 95 hours of post-baccalaureate work, with the possibility of transferring in 45 hours from the master's degree. The University of Nebraska Lincoln also offers the Joint EdD in Educational Administration with the University of Nebraska Omaha. They offer, according to their website, "a number of courses via distance education." This program is 96 hours post-baccalaureate or 54 hours post-master's. Tuition is $199.50/hour for in-staters and $397.50/hour for out-of-staters. Accordingly, in-staters will expect to pay $9,975-$18,952.50 for UNL's EdD and PhD programs or $10,773-$19152 for the UNL/UNO Joint EdD, while out-of-staters will expect to pay $19,875-$37,762.50 for UNL's EdD and PhD programs or $21,465-$38,160 for the UNL/UNO Joint EdD.

 

Good night, for now.

 

Awesome!

Ted:

Thanks SO much for this thread...it is comprehensive, interesting and fun to read. You are a DL savant!

Ian

 

Thanks for the compliment!

 

From the Great State of New York

Columbia University www.columbia.edu offers an EdD in Adult Education through its AEGIS (Adult Education Guided Independent Study) program. At the low, low price of a mere $8,925/term, it will only set you back $60,475 over seven terms.

 

From the Great State of Michigan

Andrew University www.andrews.edu offers short-residency PhD and EdD programs in Leadership and Educational Administration. At $849/hour, these 90-hour programs will run you a total of $76,410.

 

From the Great State of Ohio

The University of Toledo www.utoledo.edu offers a PhD in Higher Education. At $409.50/hour, this 62-hour program costs $25,389.

The Union Institute and University www.tui.edu offers EdD programs in Educational Leadership and Higher Education. At $940/hour, this 66-hour program costs $62,040.

 

From the Great State of Oregon

George Fox University www.georgefox.edu offers the EdD in Higher Education and K-12 Leadership. At $490/hour, this 63-hour program runs a total of $30,870.

 

From the Great State of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania www.upenn.edu offers a two-year Executive EdD in Higher Education Management. Their tuition page was a bit vague as to whether their $18,212 tuition was annual or semesterly.

 

Make that Andrews University.

 

From the Great State of North Dakota

Bears' Guide (BG15, 179 and BG16, 191-192) reports a short-residency PhD in Teaching and Learning with emphasis in Higher Education from the University of North Dakota www.und.edu . Tuition for the 60-hour program is $225.23/hour ($13,513.80 total) for North Dakota residents, $275.88/hour ($16,552.80 total) for Minnesota residents, $337.84/hour ($20,270.40 total) for Manitoba, Montana, Saskatchewan, and South Dakota residents, and $601.35/hour ($36,081.00) for all other out-of-staters. Given the residency requirements, it might have been better reported as a non-traditional residency program. They also offer non-traditional residential EdD and PhD degrees in Educational Leadership.

 

O Canada!

Athabasca University www.athabascau.ca offers an EdD in Distance Education. At $2125/term for four years, term fees come to $17,000. At $4,000/course for six courses, course fees come to $24,000. (Note, a full-course in Canada is equal to a yer-long 6 sem. hr. course in the US while a half-course is equal to a 3 sem hr course in the US.) For a total, $17,000 in term fees and $24,000 in course fees comes to $41,000 total tuition.

Lakehead University www.lakeheadu.ca , in association with Brock University and the University of Windsor, offers a Joint PhD in Educational Study with concentrations in Cognition& Learning, Educational Leadership & Policy Studies, and Social/Cultural/Political Contexts of Education. Tuition page was a bit difficult to decipher. Significant residency component.