By alternative PhD programs, I mean ones where you mostly just take classes, or you're allowed to do it alongside your regular job, or things like that. Then you just write a thesis and seemingly, never any publications. Also YOU pay for it, no stipends or anything. If you did a "regular" PhD, i.e. got paid, made published research, etc, do you think lesser of these people? It's not like I'm the arbiter of what constitutes a PhD but somehow these people don't seem the same. Is it just another way for schools to get labor and profit at the same time?
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