South College announces competency-based DBA

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Regular class papers are usually just literature reviews. You're summarizing other people's work. Dissertations require you to design an original study whether you're using existing data or collecting your own data. Quantitative studies can involve analyzing multiple variables using thousands to millions of data. Experiments can take months to years to complete. Qualitative studies can require coding long interview responses from dozens of people, which can be an arduous task. Some dissertation studies are so big and complex, people have to hire assistants.

Your committee will continue to send your work back if it's not right. What comes out of your dissertation should be able to pass the peer review process for an academic journal. Generally, papers written in grad school are not publishable quality.

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There's a ghostwriter who pumps out dissertations left and right for students at for-profit universities and schools like Liberty because, according to him, their standards are pretty low.