PhD programs to accept me?

[sanantone]

It depends on the design of the program. Many on-ground PhD programs will let you enter with a bachelor's degree, and they might have an option to earn a master's on the way. There are online and campus PhD programs that require a master's degree or will give you credit for a master's degree. Those can take three to four years. My PhD program can be completed in three years, but hardly anyone finishes that fast because most of us are working one full-time or two part-time jobs.

With online programs, almost all of the students are going to be working full-time. So, even though a program might be marketed as being two years, it could take longer based on how much time the student has to dedicate to completing a dissertation. From what I've seen, most EdD programs require a dissertation. Even the ones without a dissertation usually have an applied project that will take just as long. Then, you have some unethical, primarily-online schools that purposely slow down students. Another issue with schools that don't have many full-time professors is that your dissertation chair could quit at any time, and finding and getting acquainted with another one will slow you down.