• Dr. Bob@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    Three years for a PhD? Must be a Brit or combined degree. Average is almost six at the moment.

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        8 months ago

        There is some field dependency - mathematics is notoriously fast. The other one I talk about below is the PhD portion of an MD/PhD. In some fields (mine included) there’s 2 years of coursework plus lab research so it was heavily results driven.

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      8 months ago

      Even as a Brit that’d be fast. Here you’re funded for 3.5y with 6mo unfunded “writing up time”.

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      8 months ago

      I dunno how, but my brother got his PhD in three years and was a doctor by the age of 21. Yes he was pretty smart to begin with, but he really did it in record time. I don’t think it would be the same today, I think requirements have changed a lot since then.