Is NCU the best place for totally online DBA?

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  1. SamSam

    SamSam New Member

    I'm not a U.S. citizen and I don't live in the U.S., but I got both my Bachelor and Master degrees in engineering from good U.S. schools years ago. I work in a managerial/technical role at the public sector of my county.I'm looking for a totally online DBA program with no MBA/residency requirements. I did go through most of the posts on DBA/PhD sticky, but most of which require residencies. It's for personal achievement but I'd like it to be from a relatively reputable school, i.e., nonprofit, RA and possibly programmatic accredited. I read on Wiki that Northcentral University has become a nonprofit since it was acquired by the National University System in January 2019. But I notice that their prices went way up. According to their tuition page, the DBA program costs around $60k.
    I also do like the online Doctor of Engineering program with a field in Engineering Management offered by the George Washington University. It's shorter (45 credit hours) and totally online (no residency requirements). But the problem with it is also price; it's $1450 per credit.

    Your thoughts and inputs are highly appreciated on options for affordable reputable %100 online doctorate programs in Business Administration or Engineering Management. The school is preferably in the U.S., but I'm also open for European schools.

    Thanks in advance,
     
  2. Marcus Aurelius

    Marcus Aurelius Active Member

  3. Michigan68

    Michigan68 Active Member

    You might want to check with Baker College in Flint Michigan. They will allow a residency to be seminars and training's that have to do with the degree program. Also, check with Franklin University in Columbus Ohio, I found them very helpful in answering all my questions.


    Michael
     
  4. Phdtobe

    Phdtobe Well-Known Member

    The new nonprofit in online education is a misnomer. Nothing has changed, the quality or lack thereof is the same. The exception is that the excess cash of the nonprofit is now funnelled to a for-profit management company.
     
  5. SamSam

    SamSam New Member

  6. SamSam

    SamSam New Member

    Franklin University seemed appealing at first glance, but I read on the degree requirements:
     
  7. AsianStew

    AsianStew Moderator Staff Member

    For business programs, I usually recommend them with programmatic or secondary accreditation in addition to Regional Accreditation.
    The following have ACBSP accreditation and can be almost, if not, completed entirely online.
    1) California Southern University DBA - roughly $30K
    2) Capella
    3) Walden
    4) University of Phoenix
     
  8. Steve Levicoff

    Steve Levicoff Well-Known Member

    Asian Stew is one of our more informed members, and has done a lot to help others attain their degrees in an informed manner.

    But . . . All of the schools he recommends above are for-profits. Thus, all four of them should be avoided like the proverbial plague.
     
  9. heirophant

    heirophant Well-Known Member

    Antipathy to making a profit seems a little "unclear on the concept" when the subject is BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION.
     
  10. SamSam

    SamSam New Member

    I agree. Yet, sadly, most online DBA programs are offered by for-profit schools.
     
  11. sanantone

    sanantone Well-Known Member

  12. chrisjm18

    chrisjm18 Well-Known Member

  13. sanantone

    sanantone Well-Known Member

    Only 4 out of 13 have for-profit doctorates, but LadyExecutive might want to monitor this school for faculty openings.
     
  14. chrisjm18

    chrisjm18 Well-Known Member

    You're right. I misspoke. I didn't open all 13 profiles, maybe 7 or so chosen at random. Turned out I saw all 4 for-profit and came to that conclusion prematurely.
     
  15. SamSam

    SamSam New Member

    Does anyone know anything about OUS Royal Academy of Economics and Technology in Switzerland? Their programs seem affordable.
     
  16. Steve Levicoff

    Steve Levicoff Well-Known Member

    Switzerland has had its share of sleazy schools, including degree mills, over the years.

    OUS Royal Academy purports to be "the first virtual institution in Switzerland," a totally online school. Yet their web site is filled with happy groups of students in a campus environment, including apparent classrooms. (This is not unusual for other online institutions, all of which tend to use stock photos.) The front-page shot of students leaping in the air in graduation gowns is a hoot.

    Keeping in mind that I consider online university to be an oxymoron, I also note that their leadership/faculty list is inconsistent with regard to format: some people are listed with doctorates from specific institutions, others with the source of their degrees not specified at all. That alone makes this look like a degree mill.

    At best, this school comes off as sleazy.
     
  17. Stanislav

    Stanislav Well-Known Member

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but OUS seems to be the renamed ABMS Open University of Switzerland. The one that peddled "joint diplomas" with Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, grossly misrepresenting that relationship. Stay far away.
     
  18. Stanislav

    Stanislav Well-Known Member

    The program is provided by Edinbourgh Business school of Heriot-Watt University in Scotland. Here are more details:
    https://www.ebsglobal.net/programmes/dba

    It's a distance learning program, and last time I checked it was substantially cheaper that NCU (I believe worked out to around 30K - a price point close to CalSouthern's. This assumes dissertation stage takes 3 years).
    Given how this comes from a major UK public university, between these two - no comparison.
     

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