Help me choose a Doctoral program

It could be interesting to see what courses they require. It's in my state, New York. Suny Buffalo State is considered lower than Suny University at Buffalo, but nonetheless, it's a state school. Hopefully, the price is right, as New York State schools tend to be on the pricey side.

 

Don't forget:

• National University offers a Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership (The program used to be offered by Northcentral University before it was acquired by National University System and merged with National University),
• The University of Arizona Global Campus offers a Ph.D. in Organizational Development and Leadership (The program used to be offered by Ashford University before it was acquired by the University of Arizona and became Global Campus). The University of Arizona might consolidate the UA Global Campus to UG Online to carry the same prestigious entity.

 

To the OP, the cheapest RA doctorates in Leadership I know of are:

1) the LSU online EdD in Leadership. It doesn't actually have education courses and the website has a specific warning that the average teacher should not apply for lack of leadership experience.

I believe you can specialize in one of several areas, business communication being one, and total cost is 25,000.

2) The American College of Education in Indiana. It is also an EdD oddly enough and offers both education and non-education oriented specialties. Total cost is 23,500.

 

I find Voldasta State's website to be clunky and not very user friendly, but if I am looking at it correctly it appears the Ed.D in Leadership, a 55 hour program, is about $16,500. Can that be correct???? If so, I think this would mark the least expensive RA doctorate in Leadership to date.

 

They are also a for profit university whichbI didn't realize until today. I know those tend to be popular on this board. Does that change your opinion on liking them? Just curious. They are a school I am considering for a doctorate.

 

The tax status of the school doesn't matter. What matters is how they operate. For example, people know of for-profit schools mainly because of the University of Phoenix, ITT Tech, and a couple of other bad actors drawing a great deal of publicity. But as you demonstrated, most people don't know the tax status of a school when evaluating a graduate's credentials, nor do they care.

An example in the other direction is Liberty U. Despite its non-profit status, and despite being a pioneer in distance learning, it is mainly known for the politics of Jerry Falwell and the antics of his son.

I would be much more concerned about the accreditation of this school and whether or not it might interfere with your plans for using the degree. Or, not at all, depending on the individual and his/her circumstances.

 

Timely. I just got off the phone with Dr. Sherm who serves as the Program Chair for IAU's DM. He designed all of the courses and instructs them. He's not at all the typical, dry academic. I dound him to be an extremely friendly, charismatic guy with an

I just got off the phone with Dr. Sherm who serves as the Program Chair for IAU's DM. He designed all of the courses and instructs them. He's not at all the typical, dry academic. I found him to be an extremely friendly, charismatic guy. Anyway, the program definitely takes an applied approach to current, real world events, which I like. The course content of the DM has exactly zero religion baked into it. Happy to share more via DM with anyone who might be interested in knowing more. I won't further hijack this thread...just wanted to follow up on this post since I said I would.

 

This is a bug, not a feature, and should not require explanation as to why.

 

Understood. That aside, the point of my comment was to answer the question as to whether religion made its way into course content at this particular TRACS school. It doesn't, at least not in the DM.