Not sure if this may help, but many universities offer distance learning courses for graduate and PhD in business, including some of the best, like Harvard, Stanford and Berkley. There are others, you need to check their programs for requirements to completion. Also recently found a site for MIT called: opencourseware,

Not sure about degrees, but they offer courses and access to great database and you get grades for completion-you may be able to use those grades to get credit for study, work or life experience.

I received credit for work, and life experience while doing graduate studies at the University of Illinois through a program called University Without Walls, UI called it Governors Program, other universities have different names for these programs-these programs cut the amount of time you spend to complete your graduate degrees (specially if you have been working in the field) You have to check the universities in your area to see what they offer in this area.

As you know, when you get into the masters, doctors degrees, there are certain requirements to be met, since universities have to stand behind the degrees they give. Another aspect about these degrees is if you have to pay or can’t affort to pay yourself, then you have to deal with Stafford Loans (have to be paid later) at that lever you are not eligible for PELL grants, unless you get an internship.

However, there many changes and altenatives that are offered in the field of education these days. You just have to do a little research. Hope this helps. Good luck!

If not to become a professor, what are your reasons for getting a PhD/DBA? Will an online degree help you reach those goals? If you’re just doing this for personal satisfaction, then Walden may be fine. But if you’re using this to enhance your resume, you need to know two things: – In general, where you go for your PhD/DBA is extremely important. The reputation of your program matters a lot. Who you studied with – which professors – can matter as well. – In some business fields, employers will shy away from people who have a PhD/DBA. So know your industry. Don’t educate yourself out of a job. In these cases, if you feel a desire for additional education, you may do better getting a grad certificate from a reputable school, rather than getting a full PhD. So think this stuff through. And then try to find the most reputable program that you can. In general, you do want one tied to a reputable (ideally, highly reputable) brick and morter university, rather than one offered by a uni that’s famous for being either online or for-profit. There are not a lot of reputable online PhDs available, although I’m seeing more of them in the past 1-2 years. Business is one of the fields, along with computers, where the availability seems to be increasing. I think I remember the following schools having online PhD business, but you’d need to double check, because this is just from my (admittedly fuzzy) memory: UMass Amherst, Iowa State, Northeastern, Carnegie Mellon, RPI, maybe Penn State. Maybe U Maryland. U Nebraska. U Denver. Maybe BU? And I believe the University of London, via its external programme.

I’m looking for something like this as well, but in education. I’ve spent the past few hours looking at:

alleducationschool.com

petersons.com

gradschools.com

Most that offer doctoral degrees have some kind of residency requirement, from a couple of seminars to a full year. Hope you have better luck than I’ve had so far!

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