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.
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...