South College DBA

[sanantone]

I think I've identified the issue SACSCOC might have with the CBE programs. Each course is 9 credits.

South College uses the Quarter Hour system though, 9 quarter credits are 6 semester credits - that doesn't seem unreasonable for Doctoral level courses

That is highly unusual for doctoral-level courses. Regardless of level, semester hours and quarter hours are based on a set number of hours of expected coursework within a term. These hours were set using 16-week semesters and 10-week quarters. 

The norm is for a doctoral-level course to be 3 semester hours or 4 or 5 quarter hours. There are exceptions, such as courses with labs. If a student can complete 9 doctoral-level courses in six months, as reported here, are these courses really worth 9 quarter hours? I know it's a self-paced, accelerated program, but since they're assigning an unusually high number of credits to each course, I can see this getting additional scrutiny.