Purdue Global (PUG) EdD in Leadership and Innovation

[walruspanda]

Fyi for anyone starting from this point forward: The EdD used to be able to be completed in eight 10-week terms, or around 20-21 months (including breaks between terms, etc.). All students beginning from this point forward have to take ED780 in its own term, meaning this quickest would be 9 terms, or just shy of two years.

Any reasoning given Sir?

No one's really said. But starting with my ED780 term (last term), they've pushed the Applied Research Project topic approval and site approval from ED810 to ED780 -- which, in my opinion, was a very good decision. (ED810 is still stuffed as it is -- chapters 1 and 2 are due in this class, which is 40-45 pages.) So since they're making ED780 more part of the ED800s sequence, to me it does make sense to require it to be taken alone, same as the other 800s classes. The cost difference between 8 and 9 terms is minimal -- maybe $300 -- so it's mostly just added time, which for a doctorate I think is reasonable.