I’m a microbiologist, at least eight years for us.
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DrBob@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Three years for a PhD? Must be a Brit or combined degree. Average is almost six at the moment.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
skeletorfw@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Even as a Brit that’d be fast. Here you’re funded for 3.5y with 6mo unfunded “writing up time”.
TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You did the meme and got upvotes? We’re doomed.
tygerprints@kbin.social 3 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.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
They are 5-6 in my neck of the woods. You can go straight to a PhD from a bachelor’s though
DrBob@lemmy.ca 3 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.