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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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