PhD after WGU MS in Data Analytics?

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I dropped out of WGU in May when I ran into some problematic classes. Since then, I took those classes at 3rd party schools and picked up an Associate's degree. Now I am returning to WGU to finish my BS in Data Analytics and get the MS in DA. I should get the BS and MS within a year. After that, I assume I will be done with college, since I will be almost 60 and still plan to work. I was curious if there was a PhD in Data Analytics that was doable within 1 year. One more year of school might be ok if I could get a PhD. Most PhD programs seem to take a minimum of 2 years, if not longer.

[NotJoeBiden]

Maybe wait and see how the bachelors goes first.

[bjcheung77]

By the time you're done, you can look into this program, it should be up by then, but it's 2 years, not 1 year: https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...University

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By the time you're done, you can look into this program, it should be up by then, but it's 2 years, not 1 year: https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...University

Maybe I could do this PhD once I was working again. It would be less of a big deal if it took 2 years and I had an income.

[Duneranger]

I dropped out of WGU in May when I ran into some problematic classes. Since then, I took those classes at 3rd party schools and picked up an Associate's degree. Now I am returning to WGU to finish my BS in Data Analytics and get the MS in DA. I should get the BS and MS within a year. After that, I assume I will be done with college, since I will be almost 60 and still plan to work. I was curious if there was a PhD in Data Analytics that was doable within 1 year. One more year of school might be ok if I could get a PhD. Most PhD programs seem to take a minimum of 2 years, if not longer.

Do you understand how PhDs work or even what a PhD is? Even this odd accelerated format is going to take a massive amount of time on your own.

My Master's dissertation was 40 hours a week for 6 months

[pluggingalong]

I dropped out of WGU in May when I ran into some problematic classes. Since then, I took those classes at 3rd party schools and picked up an Associate's degree. Now I am returning to WGU to finish my BS in Data Analytics and get the MS in DA. I should get the BS and MS within a year. After that, I assume I will be done with college, since I will be almost 60 and still plan to work. I was curious if there was a PhD in Data Analytics that was doable within 1 year. One more year of school might be ok if I could get a PhD. Most PhD programs seem to take a minimum of 2 years, if not longer.

Do you understand how PhDs work or even what a PhD is? Even this odd accelerated format is going to take a massive amount of time on your own.

My Master's dissertation was 40 hours a week for 6 months

Of course I know how they work. You get the Phd-in-a-box, you turn the crank a few times, and when you hit the button, a PhD pops out.

[ifomonay]

I dropped out of WGU in May when I ran into some problematic classes. Since then, I took those classes at 3rd party schools and picked up an Associate's degree. Now I am returning to WGU to finish my BS in Data Analytics and get the MS in DA. I should get the BS and MS within a year. After that, I assume I will be done with college, since I will be almost 60 and still plan to work. I was curious if there was a PhD in Data Analytics that was doable within 1 year. One more year of school might be ok if I could get a PhD. Most PhD programs seem to take a minimum of 2 years, if not longer.

Do you understand how PhDs work or even what a PhD is? Even this odd accelerated format is going to take a massive amount of time on your own.

My Master's dissertation was 40 hours a week for 6 months

You're thinking pre-2010. Things have changed with Millennials and Gen Z, the new target customers. Many schools are granting Ph.D's with just capstones. You don't need to publish anything in peer-reviewed journals or even conferences anymore. Your committee approves your capstone writeup (still called a "dissertation"), it goes into Proquest, and you have a Ph.D. As much as you don't like it, that trend is pretty much unstoppable now.