QuoteOriginally posted by: deepvalueyou dont have to be officially inside a phd program to write a dissertation. what you could do is teach yourself, write up an academic research paper, and when you are done, you can submit it to publication in a major journal. if you publish a major paper by yourself, i'm sure you can easily then gain official admission to a program and graduate quickly by writing up a followup paper. This is a good route and you can try to build up a collaborative relationship with academics before you move to your remote location. In fact some Universities have 'special' regime PhD, e.g., http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/grad ... cial/which means that if you've published a substantial amount you can be awarded a PhD. This must however be the university from which you got your basic degrees, so check with yours.

why do we discuss about distance phd when they arent any?

QuoteOriginally posted by: mitwhy do we discuss about distance phd when they arent any?Because business opportunities consist of doing things that other people aren't (or better yet can't) do.

QuoteOriginally posted by: twofishBecause business opportunities consist of doing things that other people aren't (or better yet can't) do. They're called diploma factories.