You may already have an ABD degree without realizing it! You are ABD when you have done All But the Dissertation.
What is all but the dissertation? All but the dissertation means you have taken all the courses you need to take to earn a Ph.D. It means you have taken your Ph.D. qualifying exam. It means you have defended your dissertation proposal. At this point, you might feel you almost deserve a degree already, so someone invented the term All But Dissertation degree. Unfortunately, ABD is not a real degree offered by any university, and getting this far will do you no good if you don’t finish your dissertation.
When you are ABD, all that is left for you to do is to do your original research and then write your dissertation with the assistance of your advisors and dissertation committee members.
However, many doctoral students become stuck at this ABD point. This is when the quest for a degree can become very lonely and unstructured at the very moment it becomes most difficult. For many students, this ABD stage is challenging emotionally, personally, socially, and practically as well as intellectually. An ABD doctoral student has to figure out how to organize personal life, keep motivated, manage time, fight fatigue and discouragement, and overcome the remaining academic obstacles.
One reason many ABD students do not finish their dissertation is that they lack the statistical background and depth of knowledge of statistics to conceive, design, and implement their research methodology, analysis, and results interpretation. Statistics Solutions is able to help you move from ABD to Ph.D. by helping you finish your dissertation.
