Re:‘I don’t want this kind of life’: graduate students quest...
by chrisseaton on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @08:08AM
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So the UK is probably the best model - 3 years undergrad, 3-4 years PhD max.
Re:‘I don’t want this kind of life’: graduate students quest...
by hnbad on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @08:27AM
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Oh, that explains why I see more Americans going for PhD (successfully or not) than, say, Germans. It never made sense to me because I was used to it being the thing you can do after an MSc/MA and those already seemed like a questionable choice for many jobs.
Yes, but not a graduate degree.
For comparison, at least in Austria, you need to have finished both a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in order to be able to start a PhD.
That's usually not the case in the USA (and some common law countries), where you only need the equivalent of a Bachelor of Science in order to start the PhD. You then do a small version of the Master of Science in parallel with the PhD.