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You can earn a doctorate degree online or through traditional on-campus education. If you decide to pursue one of the many available doctoral programs or online PhD degree programs you will have to work hard; these programs challenge you with the most sophisticated content possible, because online doctorate degrees represent the pinnacle of achievement in distance learning.

Earning your doctorate or PhD online can be a wise investment as well. Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) shows that doctoral degree holders had a median weekly income of $1,624 and 2.5% unemployment in . For comparison, workers with bachelor s degrees had a median weekly income of $1,066 and 4.5% unemployment, and those with only a high school diploma had a median weekly income of $652 and 8.3% unemployment. Earning a doctorate can clearly boost your income and increase job security.

Here are some occupations a doctoral degree can help you enter. The median annual incomes listed were reported by the BLS in May :

• General practice physicians ($180,850)
• Pharmacists ($116,670)
• Chief executives ($168,140)
• University professor business ($73,660)
• University professor engineering ($92,670)

Here are some doctorate and PhD programs that are now very popular:

• Online PhD programs in psychology
• Online PhD programs in education
• Online nursing PhD programs
• Online PhD programs in public health
• Online PhD programs in business