Beware of Northcentral

[Don Dresden]

1 if you can transfer to a better abode, do so.

Easier said than done, especially if you are more than a class or two into the process. Transferring PhD course credits to other programs is a hit and miss proposition, mostly miss.

As a practical matter he's starting over somewhere else, not transferring. That's a tough call for someone knee deep in the program already.

But it's a good warning for people considering NCU. Choose your rut carefully because you are gong to be stuck in it for quite a while. As they say, "cheap and easy" might make for a good date, but probably not someone you would marry. Same with PhD programs.

I'm not sure I understand your statement about NCU's shoddy reputation. Amongst who?...Everybody I talk to has never heard of the school...

I guess no reputation is better than a bad reputation. There's a long list of negative comments about NCU at the start of this thread, and they are easy to find elsewhere too.? The only people who seem to think it's good are current students, or more likely people pretending to be current students. But (tellingly) there are a lot of ex-students out there who think it's terrible.

It's really an odd dichotomy, because pretty much everyone who posts here is a big fan of distance learning. The idea of a 100% DL PhD is terrific. I'm sure a lot of the flak NCU takes is from the reactionary cartel shills who fear the sea change such programs represent.

But nobody is a fan of a good idea badly executed. The idea of a flying machine was a good one too, but a lot of people crashed and burned until the Wright Brothers figured it out. The question is whether you feel lucky enough to get through an NCU program before they crash and burn, and if you do whether you'll still get burned later when it crashes and leaves you with an orphan degree. It's a lot of time, money and effort to trust to luck. The NCA doesn't trust them for more than 3 more years, why should you?