Online Ph.D. from brick and mortar campus. . .

Hi all -

Longtime lurker, but first-time poster . . .

Hope you can help!

I'd like to pursue my Ph.D. online from a brick and mortar US institution. I've researched this for month and have found very, very few who offer this.

I currently teach online and would like to pursue my degree virtually.

Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance!

Allison

 

I don't know any brick and mortars that have a 100% distance learning component. However, there are many that offer a PhD MOSTLY by distance.

Schools that I can think of would include...Capella, Walden, Touro(associated with Touro College), Fielding Institute, and Indiana Wesleyan.

Others that might have programs of interest would include Anderson University's DBA program and a number of foreign schools such as UNISA, University of Newcastle, Curtin University, and Leicester.

 

PhD in what subject?

That might help in the suggestions

 

Re: Re: Online Ph.D. from brick and mortar campus. . .

Capella, Walden, Touro University International, and Fielding are not at all B&M.

 

Subject. . .

I'm not 100% sure what area, but it would definitely be in the Humanities -most likely ED, SOC, or PSYC.

Thanks for asking!

Allison

 

Indiana State University offers online Doctor of Philosophy in Technology Management with very few residencies.

http://www.indstate.edu/consortphd/

 

Welcome, Allison! I am in a similar position, and one thing of which I am very conscious is that a PhD in psychology has both residency requirements and potential licensure requirements that a PhD in other humanities does not have. We have discussed much on these forums about psychology both as an academic discipline and as a clinical profession. Most DL psychology programs will retain a residency component precisely because regulators tend to require this for licensure, so be aware of this if you prefer to avoid residencies.

 

Thanks for the info. . .

fortiterinre!

What do you think you will do? I'm not tied to Psyc at all; in fact, I think I would prefer either Higher Education or SOC.

My dilemma is that I work teaching online and LOVE it. I know that it is a credibly delivery for education and my students are just as strong online as they are when I teach F2F.

Alternately, I've been warned by MANY of my mentors that I should not pursue a doctorate degree from a strictly online university; instead, I should "mask" it a bit with attending a brick and mortar campus virtually.

Although I don't agree with the naysayers who are against distance education (and I defend this mode of delivery nearly everyday), I know that they are out there and that many in higher education look down on distance ed.

Thoughts???

Allison

 

These are short-resident programs.

Antioch University
PhD in Leadership and Change
http://www.phd.antioch.edu

Liberty University - Distant Learning
EdD
http://www.liberty.edu/graduate

Andrews University, School of Education
PhD or EdD
http://www.andrews.edu/leader

I could not come up with a 100% non-resident program from a
B&M school.

Maybe someone else will.


RXI

 

Not from a U.S. B&M school.

Readers would be well reminded to know that the notion of a 100% non-resident doctorate is a very recent phenomenom, and it appears in only two schools: NCU and TUI. Even the foreign schools that offer their doctorates to U.S. students do, in many cases, require an appearance for at least the defense.

I would challenge readers to come up with examples of schools with GAAP-level recognition that require absolutely no residency. Besides NCU and Touro International, I wonder if Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, Charles Sturt, and U. of Southern Queensland have NO requirement to appear in person. The CLMS at U. of Leicester appears to require the candidate attend a thesis defense in person.

 

Allison - Expanding a bit on Rich's points, I wonder if you might prioritize the criteria.


1) US
2) B&M
3) 100% non-residential

If you can not have them all, which one of these would you let go?
Jack

 

Don't mind the residencies. . .

I just want most of the coursework at-a-distance.

The most important thing for me is the brick and mortar campus.

Thanks for asking!

Allison

 

Then I would suggest that you look at the EdD program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. I'm sure other suggestions will follow.
Jack

 

Re: Thanks for the info. . .

University of Nebraska- Lincoln:
PhD (OR EdD) in Educational Leadership and Higher Education
LINK

-On "Program Details" page:
"All participants are strongly encouraged to have on-campus experiences, yet the program is also offered online, which allows participants to begin and complete the program through online and other forms of electronic communication."


Prescott College (AZ):
Ph.D. in Education with a Concentration in Sustainability Education (Limited Residency)
LINK

[PDF] http://www.prescott.edu/admissions/documents/phd_brochure.pdf

 

Also, Nova Southeastern University has a Doctoral program in Education that you might want to look at. Beyond that there are quite a number of Australian Doctoral programs in Education.
Charles Sturt
Central Queensland
Edith Cowan
Flinders
Macquarie
Melbourne
South Australia
Southern Queensland
and of course,
UNISA
Good luck.
Jack

 

Regent University has short residencies in VA.

 

Here is a US RA B&M Social Science PhD with limited residencies.

http://www.usm.edu/international/pages/prog_descr.html

 

George Fox University in Oregon has a limited-residency EdD program: http://www.georgefox.edu/academics/graduate/doctor_ed/index.html

 

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln program sounds perfect for you. It's one of the principal land grant institutions in the country and has a solid academic reputation (although Tommy Lee's idiot reality show there does not help the reputation cause!). The military uses UNL programs quite a bit, and I am always surprised that no one from UNL DL programs seems to post here at DegreeInfo. I could not figure out how they distinguished the PhD and the EdD; my presumption was dissertation requirements, but I could find nothing confirmatory on the program website.

If B&M is your goal and you don't mind residencies, then consider the almost-legendary AEGIS Program at Teachers College of Columbia University. This program is for people who work in adult education but not necessarily in traditional teaching; I have long thought it sounded perfect for DL educators. The residencies are 3 weeks over 3 summers, and 4 Friday/Saturday "weekends" per semester for 4 semesters. The attendance is strongly required, so this clearly means getting to New York often, and admission is extremely competitive, but it sounds like a great program with immense credentials for "non-traditional" education.