ENEB Master Thread

[cacoleman1983]

4) Transfer all of these credentials to get into a(n) Azteca, Costa Rica, UCN or Texila American University Ph.D program

1. Can you please go into more details about the approach of transferring credits into a Ph.D program at the listed schools?
2. Can someone transfer completed master's degrees (RA in USA) into the Ph.D programs?
3. Once transferred, what are the requirements for the Ph.D program (i.e. additional courses, etc)
4. How quickly can someone transferring the graduate credits receive their Ph.D (i.e. 12 months to write the dissertation)?

1. The schools listed , particularly Azteca and UCN are very flexible in transferring credits.   I know this because they allowed me to enroll with advanced standing for a PhD in Education although I never paid tuition in order to start the program.   At schools like these, they will allow you to transfer your Masters coursework into the Doctorate.  If you have surplus amount of ECTS credits from different certifications and degrees, they will take that into consideration regardless of the level of hours and your program can be shorten.   If I start a program with them, I can finish my PhD in 2 years or even shorter since their programs are autonomous and the surplus of hours exempts me from any coursework to complete aside from the dissertation.

2.   The completed Masters from Universidad Isabel I will probably have to be evaluated on a case by case basis and you would need to have a foreign evaluation on their degrees/diplomas in order to even have a chance of being accepted in a RA accredited school for any doctorate degree.

3.   The requirements for the PhD programs are based on the school, degree program, and rather or not they will accept credit from a Masters.

4.   With a PhD from the schools mentioned, it would take approximately two years for the dissertation portion's research doctorate (PhD) and approximately a year for the dissertation portion's professional doctorates such as the DBA.  Professional doctorates are centered more on coursework and if you have a large amount of ECTS, it would not take long to finish a DBA  With coursework, you are looking at approximately 3 years. If you come in with 120 ECTS hours (2 years) at the graduate level with an MBA, you may already be at candidacy/all but dissertation status for the DBA.