South College DBA

[Tireman4]

I spent 5 years working on my dissertation (in history) and didn’t finish. Project was 500 pages long and on my second draft when I was dismissed for “lack of academic progress”.

I am not saying everyone’s experience should be like mine. I hope NOBODY’S experience is like mine, actually, but I genuinely wonder about a dissertation that can be completed in 6 months or even a year.

Yeah, mine was 230 pages, but I had to leave out two chapters (my chair said save it for the second book, and it is in there..LOL). I think the absolutely motivated can do it in 6 months, but gosh they would have to write almost every day. As I stated, those folks are smarter than I could ever be and motivated to boot. I wish them all the best as they defend and move onward.