Timeline for How does one go about doing a Ph.D. in Europe as an American?
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| Oct 16, 2018 at 4:43 | answer | added | Lest | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 15, 2018 at 21:41 | answer | added | user99310 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 11, 2016 at 15:20 | comment | added | Greg | I think it is a territory where the answer very much depends on your negotiation with the given universities. There is not such thing as common practice in EU, as there are still big differences beteween countries. | |
| Oct 11, 2016 at 5:58 | history | edited | ff524 |
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| Oct 11, 2016 at 5:56 | history | edited | henning no longer feeds AI | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 11, 2016 at 5:20 | comment | added | Brian Borchers | You should start by reading about the Balogna Process under which the various systems of higher education within Europe are being standardized. The emerging standard is a 3 year bachelor's degree followed by a 2 year master's degree, followed by a PhD, with most students completing the bachelor's and master's degrees. The three year bachelor's degree is often very tightly coupled with the master's degree in countries where this has recently replaced a five year program. | |
| Jul 7, 2014 at 20:00 | comment | added | finitud | Degrees in most of Europe used to be equivalent to a Master's degree, thus you'd go straight into your PhD afterwards. Nowadays the degrees have been split into a Bachelor's and a Master's, but most people still do both in succession as if they were still one degree. | |
| Jun 22, 2014 at 16:06 | vote | accept | Nick Anderegg | ||
| Jun 18, 2014 at 19:57 | comment | added | BrenBarn | I think one of the biggest differences relevant to your question is that in the US, it is very common for a Master's and PhD to be combined into a single program, whereas this is rare in Europe. I don't have enough to say to make an answer, but this does mean that when you look at "PhD programs" in the US, you are often looking at Master's programs as well, because they are included. | |
| Jun 18, 2014 at 17:51 | answer | added | Nathaniel J. Smith | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jun 18, 2014 at 13:33 | comment | added | Thorst | I think your best bet would be to find exactly the universities/people you want to work with, and then investigate it specifically. The question is way to broad to answer, since every European country differs, and in those countries there are often different ways of taking a PhD, depending the faculty, country of origin, etc. In Denmark you can for example go directly from a bachelor, but also from a masters. You can get it fully founded, or you can bring your own founding from corporations, etc. | |
| Jun 18, 2014 at 11:48 | answer | added | Davidmh | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 18, 2014 at 8:59 | answer | added | nivag | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 18, 2014 at 8:46 | comment | added | Nick Anderegg | @TobiasKildetoft Sorry if I was unclear, that was an explanation for what "fully funded" means in the US. | |
| Jun 18, 2014 at 8:01 | comment | added | PatW | It is pretty difficult to give you a good answer without having a more precise idea of where the european programs are located exactly. | |
| Jun 18, 2014 at 7:40 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackAcademia/status/479166804451807232 | ||
| Jun 18, 2014 at 7:40 | answer | added | Relaxed | timeline score: 34 | |
| Jun 18, 2014 at 7:28 | comment | added | Nick Anderegg | As a Ph.D. student you are a student, not an employee (well, it's a blurry line), but you get tuition waived or paid for and you get a stipend in exchange for working as a Teaching Assistant or through other means. Basically, it's a graduate degree you have to pay for that is paid for you through other means. | |
| Jun 18, 2014 at 7:20 | comment | added | Relaxed | You might want to explain what you mean by “fully funded”, it's not obvious what this could mean is not so clear in the European context. | |
| Jun 18, 2014 at 7:03 | answer | added | xLeitix | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jun 18, 2014 at 6:53 | answer | added | eikooc | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jun 18, 2014 at 6:39 | history | asked | Nick Anderegg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |