Re:Attitudes about graduate school are changing.
by rflrob on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @02:46PM
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The problem with a vast majority of these Doom and Gloom articles about grad school is that they implicitly lump in all subjects together. The subtitle on this site at least says "its focus is on the humanities and social sciences," but I for one find subtitles easy to overlook. There is a vast difference in employability, debt, and time-to-completion of a Science/Engineering PhD (comparatively High, Low, and Short, respectively) compared to a Social Science/Humanities PhD. I would suspect that most HN readers considering grad school would be pursuing technical degrees anyways (unless they're going after MBAs, which are a totally different class).
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Re:Attitudes about graduate school are changing.
by mechanical_fish on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @03:18PM
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Did you just characterize a science/engineering Ph.D.'s time to completion as "Short"? Or am I reading that incorrectly?
Maybe if you're a theorist, or if you choose a fortunate field, but at Cornell the average experimental physics Ph.D. used to take 5 or 6 years. 7 was not at all rare, and it was not hard to find someone who had been around for 8. Meanwhile, most of the EE Ph.Ds I know took at least 5 years.
And then your postdocs start...
Re:Attitudes about graduate school are changing.
by gamble on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @04:02PM
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The average for English is over ten years.
Re:Attitudes about graduate school are changing.
by danteembermage on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @06:10PM
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http://www.aacsb.edu/dataandresearch/reports/08-09-salsurvex...
Mean salary for new hires in (AACSB accredited) finance is $193,300