I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months

Re:I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months by chrisseaton on Friday December 18, 2020 @11:01AM (#25468335)

> but the qualification (from whichever accredited university) would open up a lot of opportunities

I'd caution about this - if you think you can apply to jobs requiring a PhD I would think that when you apply the first thing they're going to do is to ask you who your advisor was and what you did.

Unlike a bachelors just having a PhD isn't worth much - they will want to know what you actually achieved. If you have a PhD on paper but didn't really achieve much they're going to say 'huh but I've never seen your work in the community?'

> from whichever accredited university

I'd say the single most important thing on a PhD is where you did it and who your advisor was, so I would caution about this as well.

Having said all that, I did all my PhD remotely, and I did it while working mostly full-time for half of it, and while buying a house and building a family and serving part-time in the military on top of all that, so it can be combined with other things.

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Re:I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months by codingdave on Friday December 18, 2020 @11:38AM (#25468761)

I have heard exactly the opposite from people who work in the administrative side of academia. If your future job prospects are research-based, sure it matters. But if you just need to hold a doctorate to apply to be a president of a local college, or to get a leg up on a superintendent job at a school district? Any doctorate is fine.

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Re:I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months by chrisseaton on Friday December 18, 2020 @06:57PM (#25473582)

> But if you just need to hold a doctorate to apply to be a president of a local college, or to get a leg up on a superintendent job at a school district?

Ok I'd never heard of such of thing.

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Re:I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months by barry-cotter on Saturday December 19, 2020 @02:06AM (#25475714)

This is the entire purpose of the Ed.D. degree, as a box ticking exercise for promotion purposes. A JD will work as well, and that doesn’t even have the pretense of being a research doctorate the Ed.D. does.

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Re:I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months by TuringNYC on Friday December 18, 2020 @11:08AM (#25468407)

Totally agree. This is definitely the case for places where the PhD actually matters. Except for a large number of jobs in NY (finance) and in DC (government), it is just a binary flag used to whittle down the candidate pool. In Government it is especially bad as some of these credentials are used for pay increases.

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Re:I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months by the_only_law on Friday December 18, 2020 @12:16PM (#25469314)

Just out of curiosity, who is offering remote PhD’s? The only online PhD’s I’ve ever seen have been in nursing related fields.

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Re:I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months by chrisseaton on Friday December 18, 2020 @12:24PM (#25469439)

I did a regular PhD just didn’t ever go into the office. (I did at the start for a few weeks and did every now and again.)

And I guess every PhD is now a remote PhD for at least the next year?

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Re:I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months by dragonwriter on Friday December 18, 2020 @12:20PM (#25469391)

Lots of schools, and not just in Nursing. Google “remote phd”

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