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RE: South College DBA - cc95 - 07-13-2024
(07-07-2024, 09:40 AM)cc95 Wrote: 7/13/2024 Update:
Completed all the Formative assignments for the 1st course and submitted my Final Summatives 1 and 2 on 7/12/24. Awaiting feedback, meanwhile submitted first 2 Formative assignments for 2nd course DBA 6525 - Business Law, Ethics and Social Responsibility.
RE: South College DBA - GoodYellowDogs - 07-23-2024
(06-04-2024, 01:10 PM)freeloader Wrote: I spent 5 years working on my dissertation (in history) and didn’t finish. Project was 500 pages long and on my second draft when I was dismissed for “lack of academic progress”.
I am not saying everyone’s experience should be like mine. I hope NOBODY’S experience is like mine, actually, but I genuinely wonder about a dissertation that can be completed in 6 months or even a year.
The South dissertation is done with existing data sets, and that significantly decreases the time.
RE: South College DBA - Tireman4 - 07-26-2024
This was posted yesterday in the Unofficial EdD DBA group...
I am officially finished with my DBA. I successfully defended my dissertation this afternoon.
I started on July 13, 2023, and Finished on July 25, 2024. Now, on to a post-doc!
Great job!!
RE: South College DBA - maxxor6868 - 07-26-2024
I can give an update. I'm almost done with my dissertation. I have about a month to month and half left and than I be done with my DBA. I'm super excited to finish but I am kinda cutting it close with my semester end. I am thinking about going for PMP certification after I finish to booster my resume. If I finish on time it have taken me a year to finish.
RE: South College DBA - Tireman4 - 07-26-2024
Great job! How has it taken from start to finish?
RE: South College DBA - maxxor6868 - 07-26-2024
(07-26-2024, 12:03 PM)Tireman4 Wrote: Great job! How has it taken from start to finish?
Thank you! From what I gather and done as well as seen from other student posts, the first 9 classes can be done in one semester but that a rarity and will ultimately depend on your professors. There alot of material to cover so if you don't have a good foundation from your MBA you will be struggling. I have heard of several students barely covering one class a semester and South even implement a quota students have to complete every semester to maintain the program. The dissertation takes an entire semester itself and if you aren't working on it every single day it will take another semester easy. I'm hoping to complete this in two semesters or one years time and that seems the fastest possible base on the timeline required. The program has alot more content than wgu MBA and is much more in depth. The dissertation (rightfully so) is nothing like the Wgu thesis. Overall I really enjoy the program and while there are plenty of hurdles with it being new, I think the program will grow massively in the future.
RE: South College DBA - cc95 - 07-28-2024
(07-13-2024, 07:40 PM)cc95 Wrote:(07-07-2024, 09:40 AM)cc95 Wrote: 7/13/2024 Update:
Completed all the Formative assignments for the 1st course and submitted my Final Summatives 1 and 2 on 7/12/24. Awaiting feedback, meanwhile submitted first 2 Formative assignments for 2nd course DBA 6525 - Business Law, Ethics and Social Responsibility.
7/28/2024 Update:
Completed the last 2 Summatives and submitted for DBA 6525 - Business Law, Ethics and Social Responsibility. Awaiting feedback, need to complete the End of Course survey.
Next course will be DBA 6635 Organizational Behavior and Dynamics.. hope to see it in my Student Canvas within a day or two.
RE: South College DBA - FireMedic_Philosopher - 08-03-2024
(07-28-2024, 09:31 PM)cc95 Wrote:In your opinion is a background in business or a prior MBA essential for success in this program?(07-13-2024, 07:40 PM)cc95 Wrote:(07-07-2024, 09:40 AM)cc95 Wrote: 7/13/2024 Update:
Completed all the Formative assignments for the 1st course and submitted my Final Summatives 1 and 2 on 7/12/24. Awaiting feedback, meanwhile submitted first 2 Formative assignments for 2nd course DBA 6525 - Business Law, Ethics and Social Responsibility.
7/28/2024 Update:
Completed the last 2 Summatives and submitted for DBA 6525 - Business Law, Ethics and Social Responsibility. Awaiting feedback, need to complete the End of Course survey.
Next course will be DBA 6635 Organizational Behavior and Dynamics.. hope to see it in my Student Canvas within a day or two.
I have a management degree, but nothing specific to business, not a background of any sort in business leadership.
Or is it enough of a generalist program that anyone could succeed?
RE: South College DBA - cc95 - 08-04-2024
(08-03-2024, 10:01 PM)FireMedic_Philosopher Wrote:(07-28-2024, 09:31 PM)cc95 Wrote:In your opinion is a background in business or a prior MBA essential for success in this program?(07-13-2024, 07:40 PM)cc95 Wrote:(07-07-2024, 09:40 AM)cc95 Wrote: 7/13/2024 Update:
Completed all the Formative assignments for the 1st course and submitted my Final Summatives 1 and 2 on 7/12/24. Awaiting feedback, meanwhile submitted first 2 Formative assignments for 2nd course DBA 6525 - Business Law, Ethics and Social Responsibility.
7/28/2024 Update:
Completed the last 2 Summatives and submitted for DBA 6525 - Business Law, Ethics and Social Responsibility. Awaiting feedback, need to complete the End of Course survey.
Next course will be DBA 6635 Organizational Behavior and Dynamics.. hope to see it in my Student Canvas within a day or two.
I have a management degree, but nothing specific to business, not a background of any sort in business leadership.
Or is it enough of a generalist program that anyone could succeed?
My WGU MBA certainly helped due to the similarity of formatting, learning modules, deliverables, and communication with the instructors. The material builds on real world experience of management or management-adjacent leaders. The assignments are based on how to implement the learning material in your specific field/career/discipline.
The first course is very much an advanced refresher of an MBA/MSML degree. The next requires more research, APA formatted documentation, tying in the learning to work situations past and future.
I don't think you need a MBA or Management degree to succeed. The material covers everything you need, however, knowing what to spend time on and what to digest quickly is key. Also, you really can't fake the details requested. If you haven't worked in certain business scenarios or are unaware of operations/leadership in practice, you'll have difficulty because each builds on the previous.
That being said, I'm only 3 courses in, it may be different based on each instructor and lesson.
With your business background, I think you'll do fine. For me, the real benefit to a business background is that it helps speed up deliverables because I already have competencies in many of them and its part of my career. Applying new learning and research to these are not too straining.
I should also add that my wife graduated from VUL's DHA a couple years ago, she had me reviewing some of her documentation to see if what she wrote made sense from my perspective as non-industry, non-student (outsiders). Because of this review of her research, I also had a general idea of what to expect in a doctoral program going into it.
RE: South College DBA - maxxor6868 - 08-04-2024
Everything cc95 is 100% true. Could you be okay in this program without an MBA? Absolutely but unlike an MBA there is so much more depth to this program. The format is similar but that's about it. This is a doctorate program and the material required is much more in-depth. This requires someone to not only write but maintain a higher language requirement. I work with several professors and they noted my experience and prior education is fine but there were several times I was told to up my writing style and increase my exposure. This was very hard at first especially since the program was not around when I first finished my MBA and was getting back into the swing of things. My advice is don't go over board with the writing or pages. Professors don't care if you write 100 or 10 pages. They care more about the quality of the writing. WGU kinda makes you write to the rubric and South does the same but they also care about the quality of your writing. That is what separates it from a master's program. It is very tough I will say but you get used to the level required.