Research Degrees at The Open University

The Open University offers PhDs in IT which might be an alternative to Nova Southeastern University. I am not sure of the residency requirements or cost.
http://www.open.ac.uk/research/research-degrees/index.php

Does anyone have experience or feedback about this program?

 

Unfortunately, OU degrees are not available to people residing in the USA (and a lot of other places).

http://www3.open.ac.uk/courses/reghelp/s_o.pdf

 

I found this page on the OU website.

Courses available in USA
As a resident of USA you can study the following courses directly with the OU.
http://www3.open.ac.uk/courses/countries/USA.shtm

 

pretty expensive to me

the courses are expensive if converting the tuition into dollars ... wow ..

 

OU famously flopped in its effort to establish itself directly in the U.S. with USOU.

It is sometimes the case that foreign universities have trouble reaching out to U.S. students in a clear fashion. I find this true with UNISA, as well as the Australian schools. I don't find it difficult to understand the programs offered by CLMS (U. of Leicester), EBS (Heriot-Watt), or the U. of Glasgow.

I was surprised to see USOU open--the OU had never before really targets U.S. students. Plus, as a distance university, one would think they could do that from England, not needing a Maryland campus. But not only did they pull up stakes in the U.S., they appear as well to continue to ignore this market.

 

The rates OU charges for their MBA program seems to be competitive especially since they are both AACSB and EQUIS accredited.

The other U.K. programs seem to be about the same price so I would probably choose one of the top-ranked schools over OU for a DL MBA in the U.K.

 

The only PhD DL I have found so far in the U.K. is at OU. Imperial College has a DBA program but their website says it is not for DL students. I have seen some other DBA programs in the U.K. but I am not sure whether these are DL.

I am not looking specifically for a program in the U.K. but just a good PhD technology program which can be earned DL. So far Nova Southeastern and Indiana State seem to have the most interesting programs although the CSU IEOR program looks interesting as well.

Univ of Alabama - Huntsville's PhD in Engineering Management
http://www.iseem.uah.edu/graduate/index.shtml under the Engineering Management PhD.

Colorado State University PhD in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
http://www.csu2learn.colostate.edu/degrees/industrial.asp

Indiana State University PhD in Technology Management
http://www.indstate.edu/consortphd/

Nova Southeastern PhD in Computer Science or Information System
http://scis.nova.edu/

 

http://www.departments.dsu.edu/gradoffice/Programs/D.Sc/

 

Thanks for the link. I like the program since they might wave 27 credit for students who already have a masters and they have a specialization in Decision Support, Knowledge and Data Management. The price is outstanding at $252.45/per credit hour. The program delivery might be a problem for me though.
http://www.departments.dsu.edu/gradoffice/Programs/D.Sc/Prospective/ProgramDelivery.htm

What is the distinction academically between Ph.D. and D.Sc.?

 

There's nothing inferior about the DSc designation. It is, where I've seen it, very similar to the Ph.D. Whereas the DBA and the EdD will sometimes vary in terms of doctoral project/dissertation, the DSc tends to take the same approach as the Ph.D.

It is more commonly seen outside the U.S., but quite a few schools in the U.S. also award it in scientific and technical areas.

It would be nice if more disciplines took the approach of awarding non-Ph.D. designations, ones more specific to the field of study.

 

Wikipedia has a pretty good explaination about D.Sc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Science

Some of the famous universities in Boston (Harvard, M.I.T.) use this designation so that would make it easy to explain.

 

Here is an article about an online Ph.D. program in Canada. Is Athabasca University the Canadian version of the OU?
http://www.decisionsciences.org/DecisionLine/Vol31/31_3/31_3phd.pdf

 

Are they a good school?

 

Walden University

When will Walden University introduce its PhD in Engineering program? Anybody knows? Thanks.

 

This PhD program in Technical Communication and Rhetoric from Texas Tech University looks interesting.
http://www.english.ttu.edu/tc/PhD/PhDhome.htm