About
DistancePhD.org exists for one reason:
To make it easier for everyone to find relevant information about Distance Learning Doctorate Programs.
This seems like a fairly simplistic reason for starting a website, but it actually isn’t. If you spend any time searching for distance learning Ph.D. programs, you’ll find that there are many websites out there whose sole focus is on providing you information, and selling you, programs from “for-profit” universities (e.g., Univ. of Phoenix, Colorado Technical University, Walden University, etc). While there is nothing wrong with properly accredited for-profit universities, there are other options available from not-for-profit brick-and-mortar universities; these programs are sometimes hard to find…we hope to make them easier to find.
DistancePhD.org hopes to change the internet landscape for providing information about distance learning doctorate programs. We will highlight for-profit programs and not-for-profit programs. We’ll show you programs that can be accomplished via 100% distance learning and programs that require some travel to a campus.
Who’s behind DistancePhD.org?
DistancePhD.org was founded by Eric D. Brown after struggling for years to find a good doctoral program that could be completed via distance learning. Eric finally decided upon Dakota State University’s Doctor of Science in Information Systems program after spending almost two years searching for the ‘right’ program.
Eric’s search is documented throughout DistancePhD.org’s blog…you can find the entirety of Eric’s story of searching for a program in the “Eric’s Story” section of this blog.