Low cost online doctorates outside the US

[bjcheung77]

Interesting programs, I wonder if they'll be adding business, stem, or different subject matter to those programs...

[EliEverIsAHero]

The University of London offers quite a few distance learning PhD programs. Not too expensive at around £5-10,000. https://www.sas.ac.uk/postgraduate-study...e-learning

Do you know if there are any comparable programs at the doctoral level in International Relations/Global Studies, Civil Security, Defense Studies, or Applied Geography (eg GIS for Public Service Applications)? I am interested in all of these areas but UoLondon's programming at SAS seems geared towards more "pure humanities". 

I am already at 2 completed Master's degrees so a 3rd would be overkill, but I am closely watching this thread for opportunities to specialize on a budget.

[crimsonhairless]

The University of London offers quite a few distance learning PhD programs. Not too expensive at around £5-10,000. https://www.sas.ac.uk/postgraduate-study...e-learning

Do you know if there are any comparable programs at the doctoral level in International Relations/Global Studies, Civil Security, Defense Studies, or Applied Geography (eg GIS for Public Service Applications)? I am interested in all of these areas but UoLondon's programming at SAS seems geared towards more "pure humanities". 

I am already at 2 completed Master's degrees so a 3rd would be overkill, but I am closely watching this thread for opportunities to specialize on a budget.

The institute of commonwealth studies may have what you’re looking for. https://www.sas.ac.uk/postgraduate-study...ture-15798

The Institute of Commonwealth Studies offers doctoral research supervision in the following broad areas:

• Climate change
  
• Human rights
  
• Ecocide, environmental destruction and human rights
  
• Genocide studies
  
• African politics, governance and development
  
• International human rights law
  
• Ethnicity: conflict and accommodation in plural societies
  
• Protection of refugees
  
• Minority and Indigenous rights protection
  
• Dynamics of armed conflict and forced displacement
  
• Globalisation, security and conflict
  
• Promoting freedom of expression and digital rights
  
• Strengthening the rule of law
  
• The Commonwealth as an international organisation
  
• Non-governmental public actors, civil society and development
  

Other UK unis (York, Swansea, Reading, Birmingham, etc) also offer distance PhD’s in Political Science/IR. Not sure on the price though. E.g. https://www.york.ac.uk/politics/phd-stud...-learning/

[degreeappreciator123]

The University of London offers quite a few distance learning PhD programs. Not too expensive at around £5-10,000. https://www.sas.ac.uk/postgraduate-study...e-learning

Do you know if there are any comparable programs at the doctoral level in International Relations/Global Studies, Civil Security, Defense Studies, or Applied Geography (eg GIS for Public Service Applications)? I am interested in all of these areas but UoLondon's programming at SAS seems geared towards more "pure humanities". 

I am already at 2 completed Master's degrees so a 3rd would be overkill, but I am closely watching this thread for opportunities to specialize on a budget.

The institute of commonwealth studies may have what you’re looking for. https://www.sas.ac.uk/postgraduate-study...ture-15798

The Institute of Commonwealth Studies offers doctoral research supervision in the following broad areas:

• Climate change
  
  
• Human rights
  
  
• Ecocide, environmental destruction and human rights
  
  
• Genocide studies
  
  
• African politics, governance and development
  
  
• International human rights law
  
  
• Ethnicity: conflict and accommodation in plural societies
  
  
• Protection of refugees
  
  
• Minority and Indigenous rights protection
  
  
• Dynamics of armed conflict and forced displacement
  
  
• Globalisation, security and conflict
  
  
• Promoting freedom of expression and digital rights
  
  
• Strengthening the rule of law
  
  
• The Commonwealth as an international organisation
  
  
• Non-governmental public actors, civil society and development
  

Other UK unis (York, Swansea, Reading, Birmingham, etc) also offer distance PhD’s in Political Science/IR. Not sure on the price though. E.g. https://www.york.ac.uk/politics/phd-stud...-learning/

I believe from the prospectus the PhD offered by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at UoL is labelled a PhD in Human Rights which would in my mind not be a pure IR/Security Studies degree.

[EliEverIsAHero]

The University of London offers quite a few distance learning PhD programs. Not too expensive at around £5-10,000. https://www.sas.ac.uk/postgraduate-study...e-learning

Do you know if there are any comparable programs at the doctoral level in International Relations/Global Studies, Civil Security, Defense Studies, or Applied Geography (eg GIS for Public Service Applications)? I am interested in all of these areas but UoLondon's programming at SAS seems geared towards more "pure humanities". 

I am already at 2 completed Master's degrees so a 3rd would be overkill, but I am closely watching this thread for opportunities to specialize on a budget.

The institute of commonwealth studies may have what you’re looking for. https://www.sas.ac.uk/postgraduate-study...ture-15798

The Institute of Commonwealth Studies offers doctoral research supervision in the following broad areas:

• Climate change
  
  
• Human rights
  
  
• Ecocide, environmental destruction and human rights
  
  
• Genocide studies
  
  
• African politics, governance and development
  
  
• International human rights law
  
  
• Ethnicity: conflict and accommodation in plural societies
  
  
• Protection of refugees
  
  
• Minority and Indigenous rights protection
  
  
• Dynamics of armed conflict and forced displacement
  
  
• Globalisation, security and conflict
  
  
• Promoting freedom of expression and digital rights
  
  
• Strengthening the rule of law
  
  
• The Commonwealth as an international organisation
  
  
• Non-governmental public actors, civil society and development
  

Other UK unis (York, Swansea, Reading, Birmingham, etc) also offer distance PhD’s in Political Science/IR. Not sure on the price though. E.g. https://www.york.ac.uk/politics/phd-stud...-learning/

I believe from the prospectus the PhD offered by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at UoL is labelled a PhD in Human Rights which would in my mind not be a pure IR/Security Studies degree.

This seems correct. While there is certainly topical overlap, the approach looks very different from what I myself would be angling for in both theory and praxis. 

Again, I'm looking for a conventional Realist or Constructivist problem-solving theoretical approach, rather than a program of research that engages primarily in Critical Theory or takes a Human Rights watchdog lens vs. a policy analysis/design lens.