Carolina University - PhDs that have 50% transfer credit limit

[sanantone]

Carolina University is accredited by TRACS. I didn't see any programmatic accreditations. They have three online PhD programs that are exactly the same except for nine credits. The PhD in Educational Administration has a 9-credit concentration in educational administration, and the PhD in Organizational Management has a 9-credit concentration in organizational management. The PhD in Leadership is the base for the other two programs, but it offers 9-credit concentrations in healthcare administration, ministry, justice, technology, politics, international relations, innovation, sociology, communications, business, and public administration. Students can also opt to not have a concentration and choose 9 credits from multiple areas. If you choose a concentration, your dissertation must be related to that area of study. 

This is a pretty long program with 73 semester hours. Students may transfer in up to 50% of the credits; 37 credits must be completed at Carolina University. There is a one-week residency. The residency fee is $795 and includes room and board on campus. 

https://leadership.carolinau.edu/program...leadership

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Some of their concentrations offer a good number of interesting courses. It would better serve their students if they eliminated some of the leadership and research courses and allowed them to complete an 18-credit concentration for teaching purposes. It would also help them with federal government jobs because I don't think a 9-credit concentration is going to be enough for a PhD to be considered related to a particular job.

[ss20ts]

Pretty long and pricy for an NA degree. And the NA accreditation is only a religious accrediting body which was called into question in another thread.

Doctoral
Annual Full-Time Tuition (18 credits per year) $ 10,710.00
Annual International Student Fee (if applicable) 750.00
Annual Registration Fees 1,350.00
Annual Residency Fee 895.00
Other Standard Fees (estimated) 1,000.00
Annual Total $ 14,705.00

The website says it's 4 years long so that comes out to $58820 without any increases in tuition or fees. Yikes!