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PhD after WGU MS in Data Analytics? - pluggingalong - 12-20-2025
I dropped out of WGU in May when I ran into some problematic classes. Since then, I took those classes at 3rd party schools and picked up an Associate's degree. Now I am returning to WGU to finish my BS in Data Analytics and get the MS in DA. I should get the BS and MS within a year. After that, I assume I will be done with college, since I will be almost 60 and still plan to work. I was curious if there was a PhD in Data Analytics that was doable within 1 year. One more year of school might be ok if I could get a PhD. Most PhD programs seem to take a minimum of 2 years, if not longer.
RE: PhD after WGU MS in Data Analytics? - NotJoeBiden - 12-20-2025
Maybe wait and see how the bachelors goes first.
RE: PhD after WGU MS in Data Analytics? - bjcheung77 - 12-20-2025
By the time you're done, you can look into this program, it should be up by then, but it's 2 years, not 1 year: https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-PhD-in-Applied-Data-Science-Eastern-University
RE: PhD after WGU MS in Data Analytics? - pluggingalong - 12-20-2025
(12-20-2025, 10:55 PM)bjcheung77 Wrote: By the time you're done, you can look into this program, it should be up by then, but it's 2 years, not 1 year: https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-PhD-in-Applied-Data-Science-Eastern-University
Maybe I could do this PhD once I was working again. It would be less of a big deal if it took 2 years and I had an income.
RE: PhD after WGU MS in Data Analytics? - Duneranger - 12-21-2025
(12-20-2025, 10:28 PM)pluggingalong Wrote: I dropped out of WGU in May when I ran into some problematic classes. Since then, I took those classes at 3rd party schools and picked up an Associate's degree. Now I am returning to WGU to finish my BS in Data Analytics and get the MS in DA. I should get the BS and MS within a year. After that, I assume I will be done with college, since I will be almost 60 and still plan to work. I was curious if there was a PhD in Data Analytics that was doable within 1 year. One more year of school might be ok if I could get a PhD. Most PhD programs seem to take a minimum of 2 years, if not longer.Do you understand how PhDs work or even what a PhD is? Even this odd accelerated format is going to take a massive amount of time on your own.
My Master's dissertation was 40 hours a week for 6 months
RE: PhD after WGU MS in Data Analytics? - pluggingalong - 12-21-2025
(12-21-2025, 12:11 AM)Duneranger Wrote:(12-20-2025, 10:28 PM)pluggingalong Wrote: I dropped out of WGU in May when I ran into some problematic classes. Since then, I took those classes at 3rd party schools and picked up an Associate's degree. Now I am returning to WGU to finish my BS in Data Analytics and get the MS in DA. I should get the BS and MS within a year. After that, I assume I will be done with college, since I will be almost 60 and still plan to work. I was curious if there was a PhD in Data Analytics that was doable within 1 year. One more year of school might be ok if I could get a PhD. Most PhD programs seem to take a minimum of 2 years, if not longer.Do you understand how PhDs work or even what a PhD is? Even this odd accelerated format is going to take a massive amount of time on your own.
My Master's dissertation was 40 hours a week for 6 months
Of course I know how they work. You get the Phd-in-a-box, you turn the crank a few times, and when you hit the button, a PhD pops out.
RE: PhD after WGU MS in Data Analytics? - ifomonay - 01-03-2026
(12-21-2025, 12:11 AM)Duneranger Wrote:(12-20-2025, 10:28 PM)pluggingalong Wrote: I dropped out of WGU in May when I ran into some problematic classes. Since then, I took those classes at 3rd party schools and picked up an Associate's degree. Now I am returning to WGU to finish my BS in Data Analytics and get the MS in DA. I should get the BS and MS within a year. After that, I assume I will be done with college, since I will be almost 60 and still plan to work. I was curious if there was a PhD in Data Analytics that was doable within 1 year. One more year of school might be ok if I could get a PhD. Most PhD programs seem to take a minimum of 2 years, if not longer.Do you understand how PhDs work or even what a PhD is? Even this odd accelerated format is going to take a massive amount of time on your own.
My Master's dissertation was 40 hours a week for 6 months
You're thinking pre-2010. Things have changed with Millennials and Gen Z, the new target customers. Many schools are granting Ph.D's with just capstones. You don't need to publish anything in peer-reviewed journals or even conferences anymore. Your committee approves your capstone writeup (still called a "dissertation"), it goes into Proquest, and you have a Ph.D. As much as you don't like it, that trend is pretty much unstoppable now.