Seeking Doctorate in National Security or Public Policy

[FireMedic_Philosopher]

BTW, would a different Doctorate work for you instead of National Security or Public Policy? The reason is, again, without your details, we don't know what can and can't transfer over.  One of the institutions you mentioned, Liberty allows up to 50% transfer, but the subjects taught at the doctoral level is going to be hard to find 'cheap' elsewhere... Hmm, something to think about.

Quoting my earlier post - In regards to Liberty and the 50% transfers, if you get a Level 8 UK Diploma, would that actually drop the class load up to 50%? I would email them and see what they say, the classes in the UK diploma should match, and I don't know what classes would actually transfer properly, it's something worth investigating as it can drop that degree down to under $20K or less.

I have attempted researching level 8 diplomas to see if it would be possible to do one and transfer it over. Please correct me if I am wrong, but from what I am seeing they appear to be 2-3 years in length. If I can transfer one to a university such as Liberty I might be saving money, but it seems that I would be significantly extending the duration of my studies.

Also, I am open to completing something such as a "DBA" but have never worked in "business" before but am horrible at math and have never had anything such as marketing, statistics, or probability during my studies this far. (save for one "intro" course to healthcare marketing during undergrad) How much of a handicap would that be?

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One other consideration... not sure if I mentioned this before or not. Given my current profession, I work rotating 24 hours shifts and average 72 hours each week. Because of this, I would require ASYNCHRONOUS programs (something like a short 1 week residency I can manage)... However any synchronous program, like the DPA at UIS would not be something I could consider.