Another online doctorate is the Ph.D. in Human Capital Management at Bellevue University (www.bellevue.edu/degrees/phd/human-capital-mgmt/). If someone is working in the corporate field, especially HR, this could be a good program to look into.

I can't say HR is my field, but I have taken some business/information systems classes at Bellevue, and they were quite challenging. With online coursework they usually keep you hopping by giving credit for participation in the message boards (ex. The first person to post a new topic gets 10 points, etc.).

Also, they are a regionally accredited institution, and their business programs are IACBE-accredited as well!

dhandlos wrote:
Another online doctorate is the Ph.D. in Human Capital Management at Bellevue University (www.bellevue.edu/degrees/phd/human-capital-mgmt/). If someone is working in the corporate field, especially HR, this could be a good program to look into.

I can't say HR is my field, but I have taken some business/information systems classes at Bellevue, and they were quite challenging. With online coursework they usually keep you hopping by giving credit for participation in the message boards (ex. The first person to post a new topic gets 10 points, etc.).

Also, they are a regionally accredited institution, and their business programs are IACBE-accredited as well!

Thanks much DHandlos for the insider's tip and insight on the Bellevue Online degree program.

We have Bellevue University Online in the distance degree database and they are on several of our online college rankings best buy lists for affordable online degrees from regionally accredited schools.

This Online Doctorate is not in our database yet though, so it's a good find which may help others looking for solid online phd programs from regionally accredited universities.

Send more tips as you find them!

Vicky Phillips
Founder
Get Educated

dhandlos wrote:
I've been researching a number of different degree programs, and found one PhD program in the field of "Technology Management" from Indiana State University: technology.indstate.edu/consortphd/

It's actually a program run by a consortium of schools, including ISU:
- Bowling Green State University
- East Carolina University
- Indiana State University
- North Carolina A&T

I'm still reading, but it would require 2 on-campus sessions of 5 days during what they term their "residency" year, although they can be scheduled to include weekends.

It sounds interesting so far, but I may have to call them for some details about the coursework.

Hi DHandlos,

Another great find not yet in our online phd directory. Indiana State University is in my home state of .. well you guessed it .. Indiana.

Melissa, who oversees our university directory is an alumn of Indiana State University too. We have 6 online masters from Indiana State U in our database.

We do not yet list this particular distance degree though. ISU offers a number of distance degrees, many focused on state residents with limited residency like the one you have noted. They are exceptionally affordable.

Back when I lived in Indiana they used a satellite TV system called IHETS to deliver distance degree courses via live interactive TV. They are offering more and more of their courses and degrees online now. The state consortium model is becoming popular and can be a good way to earn a degree cost effectively when state universities unite like this.

Great find! Thanks again for the tip.

Vicky Phillips
Founder - GetEducated.com
And Hoosier by birth and inclination

Dhandlos and Vicky. Thank you both for sharing such fascinating information. It is all quite an eye opener.

Hi Vicky and others,

We do not appear to have a best buy for doctorates. I thought that I would share with you a very good DBA buy from a DETC accredited University. California Intercontinental University in Diamond Bar CA, offers an online DBA for under $16k. It is a well run university with excellent staff and standards. The workload is tough. That is good. The President is a dynamic leader. It would be nice if we could have a best buy doctorates list in due course.

ndlovu wrote:
Hi Vicky and others,

We do not appear to have a best buy for doctorates. I thought that I would share with you a very good DBA buy from a DETC accredited University. California Intercontinental University in Diamond Bar CA, offers an online DBA for under $16k. It is a well run university with excellent staff and standards. The workload is tough. That is good. The President is a dynamic leader. It would be nice if we could have a best buy doctorates list in due course.

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Hello,

You are quite right that Get Educated does not yet have an official best online doctorate ranking list for affordability. <SIGH>

We'd love to do rankings of online doctorate degrees for affordability BUT until we get around to it you can create your own instant ranking by cost list by searching our college directory for all accredited online PHD programs .. once you get that list HIT the SORT BY "COST" button at the top and the system will create an instant ranking of all distance doctorate degrees by cost for you at anytime.

In the meantime .. anyone can find out more about the California Intercontinental University online doctorate by clicking this link (DETC accredited online PHD).

Thanks for the tip. Distance PHD degrees are harder to rank by cost bcs. some are thesis based and some practitioner based and some require masters and some do not so require more foundation courses. There are more and more online doctorate degrees though so we'll have an index in the next year if all goes well.

Vicky Phillips
Founder, Get Educated