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About PhDs.me

At PhDs.me, we’re here to help you earn your doctorate, your way. That means connecting you with online PhD and professional doctorate programs that easily fit into your busy life. It means helping you discover top grad schools that have the exact degree and specialization you’re looking for. And it means giving you the resources and support you need to stay within budget and be successful from day one.

What We Do

Doctoral Degree Spotlights

Want to know every little detail about what it’s like to earn a specific doctoral degree? We’ve got you covered with comprehensive breakdowns of over 15 degree fields – coursework details, timelines, insights into costs, salary potential after graduation, and much more. It’s everything you need to make an informed decision.

Doctoral Degree Spotlights

Want to know every little detail about what it’s like to earn a specific doctoral degree? We’ve got you covered with comprehensive breakdowns of over 15 degree fields – coursework details, timelines, insights into costs, salary potential after graduation, and much more. It’s everything you need to make an informed decision.

Financial Aid Guidebooks

Our financial aid guidebooks provide easy-to-follow information on scholarships, grants, fellowships, and other funding paths to support your journey toward a PhD or professional doctorate. No guesswork, just straightforward guidance on where to get help paying for grad school.

Program Rankings

With so many doctoral programs out there, how do you know which are the best? Our annual college rankings, informed by the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), can help you find schools with quality, affordable doctoral degree programs you can feel confident about enrolling in.

Expert Answers

Can I earn a PhD while working? Are there part-time programs? How many years is a doctoral degree? And can I get one without a master’s degree? Our experts answer these and other critical questions you may have before enrolling.

Who We Are

Core Staff

Wes Ricketts

Wes brings more than 16 years of higher education and online learning experience to PhDs.me. He currently works with education experts to build PhDS.me’s resources and engage with graduate students. Wes holds a BA and MA in history and began his career as an elementary school teacher.

Kyle Darland

Kyle drives operational excellence at PhDs.me, managing our technical framework and driving the success of our outreach campaigns. In addition to helping PhDs.me grow, Kyle spends way too much of his time involved in local and national politics and engaging in economic debates.

Kim Day-Williams

Kim’s experience in Marketing Operations (combined with her healthy obsession with organization) helps keep PhDs.me’s research and data teams on track to find the most relevant information available. When she’s not working, Kim spends her time using her creative brain by watercolor painting, cross-stitching, or taking too many pictures of her niece.

Jordan Cosselman

Jordan graduated from the University of Nevada – Reno with a B.A. in English, and is now using her talents to craft compelling educational guides for PhDs.me. When not hard at work, Jordan can be found passionately cheering on the Denver Broncos, obsessively reading to keep up with her book goals, or playing with her dog Obi.

Kristen Ashbaugh

Kristen got her professional start as a content manager and marketing strategist in the fiber arts world before bringing her skills to PhDs.me. As a Managing Content Editor, she loves crafting educational guides that our audience wants to read. She holds a BA in History with a Minor in Journalism from the University of Nevada, Reno. When she’s not editing content or researching new topics for our sites, she can be found knitting, reading, or enjoying the outdoors with her family.

Yun Ku

Yun Ku is a communications and marketing professional with a journalistic background. She is driven to tell the inspiring, diverse and inclusive stories of students, faculty and staff in higher education. Yun has more than five years working in university marketing and communications, and close to a decade working as a copy editor and business reporter at a daily newspaper.

Contributing Experts and Authors

Meet the team behind our pages – a collection of talented writers and experts specializing in college education at the doctoral level. Our contributors are one of the key reasons behind our high-quality content, ensuring it provides trustworthy, accurate, and useful information for prospective students.

Authors and Experts

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