South College DBA

[gams007]

Here my copy

I saw the diploma of South College, and it has written the Mayor study area on it, not as the one from TESU so disgusting a bunch of money for just Bachelor of Art 

[3ichael7ambert]

I completed my MBA from WGU 9 years ago, it's similar but requirements at South are more research oriented and there are no proctored exams.

Not every assignment is a paper. Some are electronic presentations using video, text, and speech. Others are infographics. They each build on the previous. There's no uniform length for papers, depends on the assignment - average is 10pgs or less.

Everything cc95 says is true. WGU has opportunity for advancement. South College has 1/10 of the speed chances and 3x as many assignments per course. They are not all papers and the grading for the level of course is much more strict. You can't go in thinking you will finish in one maybe even two terms. Even if you had the skill and knowledge, you will have road blocks like the grading instructor speed. There only so much you can do yourself with the limitations of the doctoral program. I could be wrong but the one in a million guy who speed run wgu program in like 3 weeks will not happen at south college. The disseration alone will take one term but more than likely two for the vast majority of people with dedication to the program. If you think you are special or will do something that no one else can with writing you will fail. I quit my my side hustle, free lancing, and spent every night working on my classes. There room to speed up, don't get me wrong but they also grade you hard on your writing mechanics and flaws in formatting.

Well, for context, I knocked at my MBA in IT Management in 69 days and that only took so long because I took 5-6 weeks off to do my MAOL at UMPI. However that appears to be the norm for most of us.

Last year I did my Pierpont BOG, Excelsior BSc in Liberal Arts, BAS w/4 minors at UMPI plus the AALS business concentration (total of 16 classes within one YourPace session).

I also have my Comp Sci Associates and Bachelors from UoPeople that I finished up last year as well.

January 2024 I had 0 degrees and currently I have 8. 

Plus squeezed in the 5 classes for 100 Million Learners.

People have completed South in two terms, which is my goal but want to measure the workload. 

Thus, I’m looking for very specific numbers what I’m getting myself into at South College, not opinion based responses.

With the pending 4 chapter capstone coming around the corner, which allegedly also uses the existing datasets. It may make the second session quicker without the full hassles of delayed grading.

EDIT: I had a professor at Excelsior that was very critical on my papers. Although I took her advice and passed the class with the 4.0. 

By saying the professors are critical on the writing, is that grammatically, vocab or both.

Do I need to reference my thesaurus while writing?

“ Aghast at the chaos unfolding in the midst of the boardroom, Jonathan hastily scribbled a memorandum while absentmindedly fiddling with the tiny cruet of oil on the table.”

You seem to be an extreme exception to the norm. Maybe you can pull it off, but no one else has any data to support that it can be done that quickly. Some of the specialization tracks also requires 3yrs in the field so you'd have to choose the right one that aligns with your career track.

Good luck and keep us posted!

I  wish the above guy the best. He kinda seem like he was humble bragging with us his post ngl. You and I keep telling him but who knows. He a great student but every program is different. I completed it in 2 terms but by the skin of my teeth and I did accelerate through my wgu program as well. We can only advise that all I guess. Your positively is good to know to have.

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I would like to know how many assignments per class and the required length of each paper.
I assume every assignment is a paper, and we aren't doing PowerPoint presentations.

I'd like to gauge the workload related to the relevance of WGU or UMPI before I enroll in the DBA con IT.

I am currently on my final OA at WGU for my MBA in IT Management and have completed my MAOL from UMPI.

I completed my MBA from WGU 9 years ago, it's similar but requirements at South are more research oriented and there are no proctored exams.

Not every assignment is a paper. Some are electronic presentations using video, text, and speech. Others are infographics. They each build on the previous. There's no uniform length for papers, depends on the assignment - average is 10pgs or less.

Everything cc95 says is true. WGU has opportunity for advancement. South College has 1/10 of the speed chances and 3x as many assignments per course. They are not all papers and the grading for the level of course is much more strict. You can't go in thinking you will finish in one maybe even two terms. Even if you had the skill and knowledge, you will have road blocks like the grading instructor speed. There only so much you can do yourself with the limitations of the doctoral program. I could be wrong but the one in a million guy who speed run wgu program in like 3 weeks will not happen at south college. The disseration alone will take one term but more than likely two for the vast majority of people with dedication to the program. If you think you are special or will do something that no one else can with writing you will fail. I quit my my side hustle, free lancing, and spent every night working on my classes. There room to speed up, don't get me wrong but they also grade you hard on your writing mechanics and flaws in formatting.

Well, for context, I knocked at my MBA in IT Management in 69 days and that only took so long because I took 5-6 weeks off to do my MAOL at UMPI. However that appears to be the norm for most of us.

Last year I did my Pierpont BOG, Excelsior BSc in Liberal Arts, BAS w/4 minors at UMPI plus the AALS business concentration (total of 16 classes within one YourPace session).

I also have my Comp Sci Associates and Bachelors from UoPeople that I finished up last year as well.

January 2024 I had 0 degrees and currently I have 8. 

Plus squeezed in the 5 classes for 100 Million Learners.

People have completed South in two terms, which is my goal but want to measure the workload. 

Thus, I’m looking for very specific numbers what I’m getting myself into at South College, not opinion based responses.

With the pending 4 chapter capstone coming around the corner, which allegedly also uses the existing datasets. It may make the second session quicker without the full hassles of delayed grading.

EDIT: I had a professor at Excelsior that was very critical on my papers. Although I took her advice and passed the class with the 4.0. 

By saying the professors are critical on the writing, is that grammatically, vocab or both.

Do I need to reference my thesaurus while writing?

“ Aghast at the chaos unfolding in the midst of the boardroom, Jonathan hastily scribbled a memorandum while absentmindedly fiddling with the tiny cruet of oil on the table.”

I wish you the best of luck. I have several degrees myself and accelerated through wgu as well. Not as fast as you did but I had several things going on at the same time. I started my journey during covid and if I wanted to I could double my degree count but there was diminishing returns for me. I understand the urge to move faster but there is limits from the program itself. Also what I say above is not just opinion, I went through the program when it was just starting and finish in two terms, so I would think I have a decent understanding of how it works lol. If you truly think you can go faster, be my guest but unless they change the program itself, there not much that can be done to accelerate it too be honest. I work on new assignments as soon as old ones were being graded, have extra time to work on papers at the office or at home, and I had a very good relationship with some of the instructors who went out of their way to grade my papers as soon as they came in. All of that being said I finish with 2 terms and I put everything I had. The dissertation will take one term no matter what you do. I love the porgram and I think you should do it as well but it kinda seems like you are ignoring many of the responses here. I wish you the best of luck though, you seem like a gifted student.

I appreciate it, I will be prepared—if it just so happens to take 3 terms but my goal is to do it within two. I just prefer to guage it numerical against what I’ve already done. DBA con IT is the equivalent of 5 WGU MBA in IT Managements or 6 UMPI MAOL etc.

The part that I’ve highlighted is how multiple people have said how critical professors are with the writing, which is probably my biggest concern as far as being by slowed down as well as waiting for assignments to be reviewed.

[wiresandscreens]

Just as an update since I initially asked about speed. I started the program on March 1 and am now waiting on grading to be finalized to pass my 3rd course. I hope to have that completed and my new class loaded for me by Tuesday or Wednesday. Here is a rough timeline for reference.

3/1: Classes start (I took the day off since it was a Saturday, so no work done).

3/2: Started working on the program. Completed the majority of DBA 6505. Waited on some grading.

3/3: Completed DBA 6505 pending final grades. Started DBA 6506.

3/4: Completed majority of DBA 6506. Waiting on grading while I continued working.

3/5: Completed DBA 6506 pending final grading.

3/6: All grades in, passed DBA 6506. Waited a few hours for course to disappear from my portal and then a new one appeared around 6pm local time. Looked at the course but didn't work on it that night.

3/7 to 3/10: Worked on and off on DBA 6525 and as of today have completed all work. Waiting on grading but I'm graded up to Module 4 out of 5 Modules. Still need to submit final papers once grading is complete and then wait a day or two for that to be graded.

So far, the process is very similar to WGU but grading can take longer. My initial plan is 1 to 2 courses a week and after this class if complete that leaves 8 courses including the capstone. At my current rate I hope to be on to the capstone within a few months.

[ss20ts]

Here my copy

I saw the diploma of South College, and it has written the Mayor study area on it, not as the one from TESU so disgusting a bunch of money for just Bachelor of Art 

Many diplomas don't state one's major. The diploma awarded is the bachelor of arts. bachelor of science, etc. Transcripts is where you'll find one's major, minors, GPA, honors, etc. There's no way to fit all of that on a diploma and have it look nice.

[cc95]

Completed DBA 7120 Leadership as a Coach Consultant, was kind of slow walking this course so to meet the May 1st capstone schedule. At the same time, considering whether to respecialize in the newly available Public Admin track and do 3 additional courses prior to graduating, or just do the post doc in Public Administration after earning the doctorate. Can't think of any compelling reason not to do them post doc except for wanting the wording "Public Administration" in the diploma - may not be worth the extra effort. On the other hand, I'll be doing the work any way, but don't know if my already completed Leadership track coursework would then not be recognized, as it's not quite a postDoc until you complete a doc. Don't think they'll allow 2 specializations to be listed.

[tesu-acct-student]

I hope it's OK to still post on this thread, as it's about five months old. But I'm wondering...

For those of you who got the DBA from South College, or who are currently working on it:

What do you plan to do with the degree? I'm very interested to hear what you do with it or where it has taken you. Thank you!

[JC39]

Just as an update since I initially asked about speed. I started the program on March 1 and am now waiting on grading to be finalized to pass my 3rd course. I hope to have that completed and my new class loaded for me by Tuesday or Wednesday. Here is a rough timeline for reference.

3/1: Classes start (I took the day off since it was a Saturday, so no work done).

3/2: Started working on the program. Completed the majority of DBA 6505. Waited on some grading.

3/3: Completed DBA 6505 pending final grades. Started DBA 6506.

3/4: Completed majority of DBA 6506. Waiting on grading while I continued working.

3/5: Completed DBA 6506 pending final grading.

3/6: All grades in, passed DBA 6506. Waited a few hours for course to disappear from my portal and then a new one appeared around 6pm local time. Looked at the course but didn't work on it that night.

3/7 to 3/10: Worked on and off on DBA 6525 and as of today have completed all work. Waiting on grading but I'm graded up to Module 4 out of 5 Modules. Still need to submit final papers once grading is complete and then wait a day or two for that to be graded.

So far, the process is very similar to WGU but grading can take longer. My initial plan is 1 to 2 courses a week and after this class if complete that leaves 8 courses including the capstone. At my current rate I hope to be on to the capstone within a few months.

Do you think it’s realistic to finish in one term, or would I really need at least two terms? Also, do you recommend the capstone or the oral option.....which is easier, more ADA-friendly, and can be completed more quickly?

[bjcheung77]

For South College DBA, you can't finish in one session. The fastest would be at least two sessions. One of our members tried to finish as fast as possible and they aren't authorized to complete or can't do the final dissertation in the same first session. Again, you can try, but rules regulate at least two sessions.

[turbotortuga]

Do you think it’s realistic to finish in one term, or would I really need at least two terms? Also, do you recommend the capstone or the oral option.....which is easier, more ADA-friendly, and can be completed more quickly?

Grading is what will slow you down the most. Right now it's set at 72 hours, which most of my professors took or longer. Fastest one could finish now would be 3 terms (18 months), unless every single professor they got graded much faster than normal (which is uncommon). Safe bet will be 3-4 terms as the Research Course will take 3-4 months (5 day grading turnaround) and the Dissertation/Capstone course has a 7 day grading turnaround, so it'll take 5-6 months easily. Oh, and the tuition is now 7K per term, plus the technology fee, so $7,695 per term total cost.

[JC39]

I spoke with an enrollment advisor and the head at South College and they confirmed that there’s no policy requiring the dissertation to be done outside of term one. The main factor that affects timing is grading turnaround. I think I could probably complete everything in two terms, but at 7k per term plus fees, that’s around 14k, which is a lot to commit.

I’m wondering if there are any DBA programs with faster or more predictable grading, or other options that are more cost-effective, so finishing in two terms wouldn’t break the bank.

South College seems like a solid option, but with the slow grading it might be hard to commit. I’m looking for something quick, affordable, and still credible.

I understand the capstone will take time to research, but I’m curious if there are any DBAs out there that allow for faster completion without compromising quality.