OK State PhD Fire and Emergency Management Administration

[Jonathan Whatley]

Oklahoma State University's PhD in Fire and Emergency Management Administration, one of the oldest in the subject in the country, is now available online. "Regular semester classes are taught live using Zoom one night per week/per class." A student selects a track in either Fire Service Administration or Emergency Management Administration.

[dietcenter]

If your Masters GPA is too low, they want you to take the GRE for this degree? WTF...?

[Jonathan Whatley]

If your Masters GPA is too low, they want you to take the GRE for this degree? WTF...?

That's not unusual!

[FireMedic_Philosopher]

Oklahoma State University's PhD in Fire and Emergency Management Administration, one of the oldest in the subject in the country, is now available online. "Regular semester classes are taught live using Zoom one night per week/per class." A student selects a track in either Fire Service Administration or Emergency Management Administration.

Unfortunately their classes are "synchronous" and very unforgiving to those of us actually working in the discipline, given our 24/48 shift rotations. 

This is the sole reason why I had to pass them up.

[Sagan]

Since it is a PhD, one might assume it is a scholarly degree. If so, I wonder what the underlying theoretical basis is for the subject matter? What is its bedrock theory?

The program's learning objectives seem to (vaguely) describe a scholarly approach. Here's the one objective that caught my eye:

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Graduates can demonstrate mastery of substantive theories in and knowledge of fire and emergency management administration and of its application to practical problems and issues in the field.
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I wonder what those theories are?

[FireMedic_Philosopher]

Since it is a PhD, one might assume it is a scholarly degree. If so, I wonder what the underlying theoretical basis is. What is its bedrock theory?

ANSWER:

"Put the wet stuff on the red stuff. "

see also...

"Pain is temporary, glory lasts forever, chicks dig scars"


I'm all seriousness,

From what I have heard, it is very much a professional DPA type degree... not really research focused, but PhD sounds better than calling it a DPA. Most students are working officers -Chiefs, Captains, Lieutenants- trying to get doctoral status to either teach full time or earn a raise at big city departments. As far as rigor, I've heard it compares to any other DPA.

[bjcheung77]

For the GPA being too low issue, you can do the MAOL, MSB or whatever you're interested in at UMPI (or another institution with similar graded CBE masters) to bump up the GPA quickly. And also ask admissions/advising for options to take in order to bypass that requirement or get that requirement fulfilled.