A Good DBA School

[craigfin]

First, you lump together AACSB and ACBSP. There is a gulf of difference between them. The first is the premier business program accreditor. The other is not. Not at all.

You would be hard-pressed to find a situation where ACBSP accreditation mattered. Not so with AACSB.

But why would either matter to you? Are you hoping to do something where this accreditation would make a difference? For example, teaching in an AACSB-accredited business school would almost certainly require a doctorate from an AACSB-accredited program. But, doing a doctorate by distance learning won't prepare you to enter such a school. Employers largely won't make this distinction around accreditation, so what?

Once you get past programmatic accreditation, you have to consider institutional accreditation. Will you need a doctorate from a regionally accredited school? Or would one from a nationally accredited school do for your purposes? And what about international options? There are schools in the UK (like Heriot-Watt U.) and in Australia that might fit the bill, especially in terms of affordability.

(I know this response is two months after the post, but I'm hoping you read it anyway.)

Yes I read it, and a two month reply is kind of absurd. However, thank you anyway. I don't need this answered anymore, I have already found my answer elsewhere.