Online Doctoral Programs in Education
Researching Online Doctoral Programs in Education: Digging deeper
It’s just a fact that if you’re looking at online doctoral programs in education as a possible academic path, you need to do more in depth research than if you were going to enroll in an on campus residency program. It’s a lot harder for scammers to fake a university library, after all, than it is to put up a flashy, slick website with a bunch of official looking seals that advertise “accreditation.”
Besides, accreditation is more than enough for bachelor’s degree programs, and goes a long way in confirming a graduate program’s status. When it comes to your doctoral degree though, you want more than the bare minimum. So how do you determine if a program has what you’re looking for?
Online doctoral programs in education: Alumni
One excellent resource that’s all too often overlooked is finding the program’s alumni association website. Most will have one, and you can take a look at what their graduates have accomplished. Are the school’s graduates publishing in scholarly journals? Getting coveted university teaching positions? Forming the leading edge in education at research universities? The key question of course, is are they in careers they couldn’t have gotten without a good doctorate degree?
Online doctoral programs in education: Faculty
Checking out the CV’s of the faculty is at least as important as seeing what the alumni are up to. And when it comes to looking for a potential advisor, far more important. Online doctoral programs in education are no different than on campus doctoral programs in that the faculty more or less is the program. If the faculty is excellent, the program will be excellent, and the opposite is quite true also. You need to make sure that there are members of the faculty who are sharing your same vision.
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