Getting my doctorate online (neuroscience)

[XXXNoahXXX]

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Can anyone think of a field that is funnier than neuroscience for this post? It has an awesome blend of "not conducive to book learning" and "REALLY REALLY dangerous to have a fake phD in".

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While a PhD in neuroscience is ridiculous, a lot of you guys are confusing it with neurology or neurosurgery. Not dangerous at all to have a fake PhD in neuroscience, just completely worthless to anyone dumb enough to actually hire you. A ton of the neuroscience program is lab work, so I'm sorta confused about this even being possible.

[gumpzilla]

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While a PhD in neuroscience is ridiculous, a lot of you guys are confusing it with neurology or neurosurgery. Not dangerous at all to have a fake PhD in neuroscience, just completely worthless to anyone dumb enough to actually hire you.

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That is the thing that's occurred to me with all of this as well. Such a Ph.D seems likely to be worthless even if you could get it, because I would imagine just about anybody in the business of hiring Ph.D scientists is going to wonder what exactly it is that you did at the University of Phoenix, and why they have never heard of your advisor.

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...just about anybody in the business of hiring Ph.D scientists is going to wonder what exactly it is that you did at the University of Phoenix, and how much they love that New Pornographers song in UofPhx's commercial.

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[pergesu]

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...just about anybody in the business of hiring Ph.D scientists is going to wonder what exactly it is that you did at the University of Phoenix, and how much they love that New Pornographers song in UofPhx's commercial.

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I saw them live (I had never heard of them before) and they were terrible.

[CallMeIshmael]

paging Mebenhoe

Mebenhoe, please report to this thread

[Dids]

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A doctorate gotten solely through online courses would be one of the bigger pieces of [censored] I've ever heard of. Having such a degree would be almost fraudulent.

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I work in online education for one of the leading honest to goodness real schools that does stuff like this. Very few PHD programs are offered totally online. You're always going to have at least some degree of onsite classwork.

That said, the notion isn't nearly as laughable as you suggest. We're mos def moving in that direction.

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A doctorate gotten solely through online courses would be one of the bigger pieces of [censored] I've ever heard of. Having such a degree would be almost fraudulent.

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I work in online education for one of the leading honest to goodness real schools that does stuff like this. Very few PHD programs are offered totally online. You're always going to have at least some degree of onsite classwork.

That said, the notion isn't nearly as laughable as you suggest. We're mos def moving in that direction.

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The problem isn't with the on or off site nature of the coursework. It is that coursework is ancillary to the real point of the Ph.D, which is that it's a research degree. Now I suppose that's possible from afar, for certain fields, but I have a hard time imagining people getting into that. The apprentice system is very ingrained in the scientific culture and I can't imagine many people taking on students in such settings. EDIT: And it is obviously completely impossible for any type of experimental science these days, unless you are an independently wealthy former dot com entrepreneur who has decided to drop a couple million dollars on a personal lab.

[marchron]

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A doctorate gotten solely through online courses would be one of the bigger pieces of [censored] I've ever heard of. Having such a degree would be almost fraudulent.

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Ya no [censored]. I would hate to think I am going to a doctor that took his classes while sitting in his underwear drinking a beer.

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I don't see how moving the learning from "the classroom" to home removes its legitimacy, unless understanding of the presented material depends on being surrounded by a couple dozen other hungover students. Theoretically, it shouldn't matter.

That said, I'm judgmental and prejudicial. OP isn't coming anywhere near my brain.

[CallMeIshmael]

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A doctorate gotten solely through online courses would be one of the bigger pieces of [censored] I've ever heard of. Having such a degree would be almost fraudulent.

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Ya no [censored]. I would hate to think I am going to a doctor that took his classes while sitting in his underwear drinking a beer.

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I don't see how moving the learning from "the classroom" to home removes its legitimacy, unless understanding of the presented material depends on being surrounded by a couple dozen other hungover students. Theoretically, it shouldn't matter.

That said, I'm judgmental and prejudicial. OP isn't coming anywhere near my brain.

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gump pretty much hit the nail


Perhaps im lacking in creativity, but I really cant imagine someone getting a phd in this subject from home, and not laughing when they look at the degree. This is a lab degree.


My reaction (and I bet others' as well) would be different if it were like english, history, sociology, etc etc.