Looking for a "unicorn" doctorate program

[bjcheung77]

Have you looked at the Emporia and UCA programs I mentioned earlier in post #6? The reason I looked into them was because, Emporia is $22K PhD IT with 3 concentrations, at the end of the day, this is a very good program for future librarians! I wonder if I can do that and be a librarian when I retire...

UCA is PhD in Change Leadership (DEI), which somewhat seems like a logical route to ladder into from what your completed or current Masters level studies are, this program is also $21-22K. At the end of the day, if you can get that budget to finish at Purdue Global, that also might work as well.

Last but not least, university status doesn't really matter, there are many top 50 and even an Ivy League with that college designation. It's the course content that counts (well, for me anyways). If the classes in the degree closely matches what I would like to study, that's the degree I would go for first.