PhD Requirements
You have your master’s degree and you have worked hard to get it. Now what?
You can go into the work force and make a great living, it’s true. But that isn’t where everyone wants to be, and for those who wish to take the next step, they are dedicating themselves to another five years or more of hard work and education before they make it to the very top.
If you are trying to decide if you want to go back for your doctorate, it might help to look at the PhD requirements for online programs.
Capella University
Capella University is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA).
Capella University offers accelerated classes: 10 week online classes.
Capella offers quality education for working adults who want to advance in their careers. Learn more about our online doctoral, master’s, MBA, undergraduate, and certificate programs
Online Doctoral Programs are also available in a wide-range of fields including:
- PhD – Accounting
- PhD – Counselor Education and Supervision
- PhD – Criminal Justice
- PhD – Curriculum and Instruction
- PhD – Educational Psychology
- PhD – Emergency Management
- PhD – General Advanced Studies in Human Behavior
- PhD – Business
- PhD – Human Services
- PhD – Information Technology
- PhD – Organization and Management
- PhD – Psychology
- PhD – Health Care Administration
- PhD – Human Resource Management
- PhD – Industrial/Organizational Psychology
- PhD – Information Security
- PhD – Information Technology Management
- PhD – Information Technology Project Management
- PhD – Instructional Design for Online Learning
- PhD – IT Education
- PhD – K-12 Studies in Education
- PhD – Leadership
- PhD – Leadership for Higher Education
- PhD – Leadership in Educational Administration
- PhD – Management Education
- PhD – Nonprofit Management and Leadership
- PhD – Nursing Education
- PhD – Post-secondary and Adult Education
- PhD – Professional Studies in Education
- PhD – Project Management
- PhD – Public Safety Leadership
- PhD – Social and Community Services
- PhD – Special Education Leadership
- PhD – Training and Performance Improvement
- DBA – Business Intelligence
- DBA – Global Operations and Supply Chain Management
- DBA – Strategy and Innovation
- DHA – General Health Administration
- DHA – Health Care Leadership
- DHA – Health Policy and Advocacy
- DPA – General Public Administration
- DrPH – Epidemiology
- DrPH – Health Advocacy and Leadership
- DSW – General Social Work
- EdD – Educational Leadership and Management
- EdD – Reading and Literacy
- EdS – Curriculum and Instruction
- EdS – Leadership in Educational Administration
Read more or get a program guide from Capella University.
PhD Application Process
Campus programs and online programs act differently when it comes to admission. You still have to show the basics, such as test scores, grades and former degrees and credits. But you also have to provide them with written samples, letters of interest, at least one letter of recommendation, and the GPA and GRE scores of each graduate level you have reached in the past, sometimes all the way back to your associate’s.
Most of that is simple to understand, but the element that students tend to have the hardest time with is the written sample. This is an essay that is fairly standard, but is meant to give the university a chance to see who you are, how you think and how you present information. Depending on the school, the topic of the essay may change, as well as the length and format.
PhD Post-Admission Process
Once you are accepted into a PhD program, you have to remember that even online courses will have mandatory meetings with advisers, instructors and workshops with other students. These are to ascertain your ability to maintain the program, as well as discuss the most important part of your degree: your dissertation.