Capella University offers Internet-based distance learning for students worldwide. Eight doctoral degrees--Doctor of Philosophy; Doctor of Psychology; Doctor of Education; Doctor of Business Administration; Doctor of Health Administration; Doctor of Public Administration; Doctor of Public Health and Doctor of Social Work--are awarded in dozens of specialties through the program. Capella University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. Programs help students accrue theoretical and practical knowledge that will be funneled into a dissertation, to be completed at a distance.
Capella University
Capella Tower
225 South 6th Street, 9th Floor
Minneapolis, MN 55402
888-227-2736
capella.edu
University of Maryland University College offers a non-traditional Doctor of Management degree. The program is designed to offer continuing educational opportunities to professionals currently working in business or management who are too busy with career work to consider taking on the full burden of a doctoral program. Students must complete 48 credits in courses like Global Business and Foundations of Management Theory and Strategic Thinking in addition to a dissertation and comprehensive written examinations. A few mandatory on-campus meetings in Adelphi, Maryland, are part of the program.
University of Maryland University College
3501 University Blvd. East
Adelphi, MD 20783
800-888-UMUC
umuc.edu
The University of Colorado Denver hosts a traditional Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing degree that can be achieved through non-traditional means. The program, though based on campus and in-class, is fully distance accessible. All coursework can be completed online, though students are required to travel to Denver once per semester during coursework and two or three times during the dissertation process. The doctoral program equips students for careers as nursing researchers, educators, clinician-scholars, administrators and health care policy analysts.
University of Colorado Denver
College of Nursing
Mail Stop C288
13120 East 19th Avenue
Aurora, CO 80045
nursing.ucdenver.edu