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PhD-BA, if not accredited by AACSB or other B school accrediting agencies, is not that valuable globally. Especially, for students who work in the academia. Even if the teaching quality and experience are regular, on campus academic activities will add value to the PhD since 100% online PhDs are looked at skeptically in the academic world. TUI Trident University must gain and maintain national and international ranking and accreditation. My business school has AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA accreditation so they do not accept degrees from non accredited shools to teach with them master´s level and phd level courses. Sometimes it is difficult to understand and explain after spending 6 years and investing substantial amount of dollars on PhD and not being able to get recognition. I wish success for TUI Trident University, and suggest that TUI should invest a bit more on branding and prestigue.

Excellent faculty willing to go the extra mile to help students. Dr. Gomez is the best. Worked with me and gave 100+%. Curtis Doyle

I found the program director to be a very helpful person. The issue was she did not become involved with my PhD until there were problems. Part of the problem was the number of part-time, random people assigned to help me through the dissertation process. I was a student at Trident from 2007 - 2016. Several times, I was assigned different people. In one six month span, I was assigned four different advisers. That wasn't so bad given that I knew what I was doing at that point, and I had been around for awhile. What became bad was one adviser tried to call me out for what he called "inconsistencies." He went as far as emailing the program director and stating my PhD topic wasn't actually researched and he didn't want to work on it anymore. Although I had been attending as a student for almost 6 years, and had passed all of the required courses and drafts, he felt that he alone would judge my work. I also had people who actually participated in the research willing to tell him when, where, and with whom I completed the research. He didn't want to hear it. The other part of the problem was my fault. I let several semesters lapse between dissertation drafts, and I had honestly forgotten relevant information. Ultimately, I had to drop two variables from the study. This also caused that same adviser to have a hernia. But, after talking to several people with PhDs, this kind of think happens all the time. It's the real world and real life. Well, after talking to the program director, he was replaced with the program director. Then, things went smooth. I received regular feedback on my draft and completed the PhD in basically three months (after spending years lingering). They only get serious when you approach the deadline and their accreditation statistics might change if you have been in the program for that long and don't obtain the degree. All in all, if you seek out the right people and advisers, you will be successful. But, it takes a lot of work to get to the right people at this university, and the university is content with letting you keep on paying for semesters with no support, or partial support from random, part-time faculty who do more to discourage than encourage you.

The curriculum is rigorous and "you" will earn your title ... with the help of incredibly knowledgeable and caring instructors who want you to succeed. This demanding yet caring culture permeates throughout Trident University International. I am a better person for having experienced it ... all of it.

Although online learning is independent there was a strong lack of hands on professors. Professors were unavailable or unwilling to make time to speak to you. There was a lot of figuring it out on your own. There was also a lot of turn over and it was always difficult to reach a higher level person when needed. If it wasn't for Dr. Muraco standing by me 24-7 I would have never completed the PhD. It's really important to have a connection with professors and this school just didn't have that. It was disappointing especially when you spend over $100k on a degree. They also didn't provide resources to get jobs following which was also a disappointment.

I completed my Ph.D. in business administration at Touro University International, now Trident U. in 2006. The experience was fantastic. The coursework was challenging and valuable, but the dissertation writing experience is what really added value to the experience. Touro did a great job with having the dissertation research and writing process flow seamlessly from the coursework. My advisors, Drs. Shackman and Fitzgerald, were distinguished scholars who taught me a great deal and made the experience rewarding and enjoyable.

I'm equally as proud of my school as I am earning my PhD there. Trident University International is a great learning experience with excellent professors.

I really enjoyed the PhD program. The courses were very informative and provided the correct knowledge needed to advance in my field. The Director of my program (Dr. Wenling Li) was/is extremely knowledgeable and helpful. I can not say enough about her as she provided constant guidance, support, shared her knowledge, was very patient and wanted to see me succeed. Although the courses were enjoyable, I was struggling with statistics until the final dissertation was complete. At that time, it all began to make sense and I was able to see the importance of the varying components learned prior.