Physics Concentration at Charter Oak State College

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I wonder if I would be able to get any letters of reccomendation or experience with professors from Thomas Edison State University. I live very close to TESU, and I am a New Jersey resident, so I could go to them in-person while taking online classes. There is a doctoral program I found online from Aspen university (nationally accredited). They require a masters degree for admission, so I could potentially go to this college. https://www.aspen.edu/business-technolog...r-science/

TESU isn't a research university, so the odds of getting research experience from TESU alone are 0. You would need to look elsewhere for that. Also, you can get letters of recommendation from professors online - it's usually just harder for them to get to know you personally that way. It's very unlikely you could visit TESU professors in person: first, there's the pandemic, and second, most professors probably don't live in the area.

Why do you want to get a PhD? If you just want the title of Dr., then that program would be fine. Otherwise, absolutely don't get a doctorate from a nationally accredited or for-profit school. You very likely would not be eligible for any research positions or professorships (except those from other for-profit nationally accredited schools), which is usually the reason why people get PhDs. Some people here might argue that all schools are for-profit - which is true - but the point is that nobody in academia would take a for-profit or nationally accredited degree seriously, justified or not.

Good PhD programs will pay you to work on your research - that's what it means to be funded. The ROI on a doctorate is questionable even with funding, but if you have to pay for it yourself, it's abysmally bad. I've never heard of a funded online PhD for computer science, but if you could find one from a regionally accredited non-profit school, that could be an option. But I doubt that exists.

If you're serious about this path, you should attend a brick and mortar school for your bachelors. If you don't, then you should at least attend an in-person program from a regionally accredited non-profit university for grad school. If you're not willing or able to do either of these, then you should question why you want to do a PhD. Sorry if that's harsh, but it didn't seem like my previous posts were getting through.