Business PhD/DBA advice needed!

Sounds a like good price.

23,00-27,000 sounds rather inexpensive for a AACSB DBA.

But I looked further back at this thread into last year.

CarlosB made sense with this...

"I don't agree with the AACSB only policy myself. In fact, I think it hurts the students in the long run. A non AACSB PhD/DBA is more likely to have real world experience, something I value in an educator. I would think that colleges would want the best possible candidate that meet the qualifications necessary for accreditation."


What if a person has an ACBSP doctorate, the experience of managing corporations in the public domain, publications and high profile research grants, teaches at a non-AACSB larger school and make the same money as shown for doctorates on the AACSB Website, and have been doings so for several years while padding the CV?

This would support the AACSB only bias, as seemingly damaging to the profession, and impacting mobility of qualified person's with other legitimate doctorates.

This criteria or policy seems more driven by competition, as ACBSP has successfully challenged AACSB in the marketplace.

 

Just going to put my 2 cents into this discussion...

While an AACSB accredited doctorate is preferable - the fact is that there are only a couple of schools in the US that offer an AACSB program through DL. While one could get private loans to finance an AACSB doctorate earned outside the US, one has to remember that the private loans do not have a public service forgiveness option, nor do they have income-based repayment programs. Federal student loans do. I am on an income-based repayment program, and plan to have my loans forgiven in 7 years.

I have an online PhD from Capella University (a for-profit online only school), and I am in a tenure track position at a US News and World Report regionally ranked teaching university. I taught at a community college for 6 years while earning my PhD, and for some time afterwards. If you are willing to work at a small private (which I enjoy immensely - BTW), a non AACSB degree can help get you in the door. Of course, teaching experience and scholarship will help as well.