How to transition: leaving an EdD before completing to pursue a masters in another area I finished half of my comps for an EdD program that I really have no interest in finishing. I would actually like to pursue a second masters in a different area, but I have no idea how to do so, and it's a sticky situation to ask these questions of the university advisor. Basically, I want to move in a different direction with my career, and a second masters will bolster that rather than completing the EdD track I'm currently on. I basically have 12 more comps before I can even write dissertation anyway. Rather than pay tuition another semester for a degree I will not finish, I'm interested in how to transition and if I will run into any issues because I leave this current program with admission to another.
Finish it off.  Do it as fast and easy as possible.  The doctorate is more impressive than a second masters.  You are half way through. 

Note I am extremely skeptical of academia and grad degrees and often tell people to do an MBA instead or just work.  But once you are in it, finish, finish, finish.

And remember, it is pass fail.  Just get through it with the minimum.  ASAP.