Online degree @ Manchester University Any Good(Doctorate)

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I am interested in taking an online doctorate from Manchester Business School in US... In my early late 20's to early 30's part time. Im not sure if its a good idea.

The degree is called a DBA. DBA's are invented by Harvard. Which is equivlent to a Ph.D for business. To this day Harvard doesn't have a Business Ph.d they only have a DBA. However, in there is alot of online for profit schools around the world offering Ph.d's and DBA's. Which IMO make the DBA look less valuable. I don't know any good schools in Canada that offers a DBA. And there is 2 repectable school in the US that I know that offers it. Boston University (not the best school, but its pretty good probably a top 50 ) and Harvard.


On the other hand, Manchester University in the UK is a respectable school. It have the 4th most Nobel prize winner grads in the UK (25 nobel prize winners). They are also a "Red Brick" school which wikipedia says is equivalent to the "public ivy league" (the best public schools in the US, wiki isnt the most accurate thing on the web). Manchester University is also a internationally accredit school. Manchester's Masters of Business Administration degree is ranked 30 out of the top 50 in the world. Toronto University(Rotman) is 22 out of 50(one of Canada's biz top school). These rankings is from the same ranker. I think its Financial Times.. It should be a good ranking system because university of toronto posted it on their site. and the Fiancial Times is a international news paper with 330k suscribers. MU is also a Ruesell 8 reseach school, which is the top 8 research uni's in the UK.

In the future I want to get a Doctorate in Business because I want to be a professor in a decent school in Canada. My plan is to teach part time in my late 20's (27-29 and start my doctorate in my 30-32's... I know 3rd tier biz university school that wants its lectures to have Masters degree so its doable, their not that good for business but good for arts and also their leading school in my province for education degrees), because currently I am starting my joint masters degree program on sept 2011(2 to 3 year... the extra degree only cost 4k more or 1.333k a year more)(@ a internationally accredit school... not online.. and not the 3rd tier school that i plan to teach). I want to do it part time because I have a career track to Accountant ,assistant to the vice president for a industry leading medium sized company in Canada(600ppl).


I don't want to do a ph.d full tme unless im soo rich and i dont need a full time job. also I will probaly get married... as long as im not too busy in my 30's lol.. BY that time my parents will be 65.... almost prime age for baby boomer professors(age group now 45-60) to retire

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There are some pretty good universities in Canada for business but that aside, I never thought it was possible to get a doctorate via online universities. You learn something new every day I guess. Some places may be fine if you just have a Master's and not a doctorate but it'd take several years even after you're accepted as a lecturer to be considered a full professor.

You mentioned Toronto (where I attend, not for business though) and if you want to teach in Canada, why not go to Rotman? I'm sure you've already looked this up but some Master's programs don't accept part-time, some want only full-time. I was only recently aware of this because I was browsing around for various Master's programs and the part-time/full-time was something that every place, including Toronto stressed. If you want to teach at Canada, there's also University of Western Ontario, although it's ranking lower on Financial Times, around a 49-50. Still, in Canada, UWO is highly recognized, maybe not as much as London Business School, Toronto or Harvard but it's no push-over either.