Questions tagged [part-time]
These questions relate to maintaining other employment while working in Academia or to part-time post-graduate study while working full-time.
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Part Time(Germany) vs Full Time PhD(Netherland) [closed]
I have a very complex situation. I am doing my PhD from last 14 months in the area of Computational Social Science in Germany. I have 2 publication(1 workshop and 1 Journal), 2 submitted paper(Tier 1 ...
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Independent research after grad school while holding a somehow unrelated career. What are the potential caveats or problems?
I recently graduated from a master's degree while working on an interesting but niche intersection of machine learning and biology. This area is of my personal interest and I believe it can impact the ...
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How plausible is doing a part-time research masters with the aim of applying to PhD programs?
This question might be a variation of similarly asked questions, however, there is some different details that I think might make it different. So thank you in advance for reading.
I was admitted into ...
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Is it possible to complete a Master's degree while working full-time?
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There's a question which asks is it possible to get a PhD while working full time? The responses to this were essentially "yes but say goodbye to anything except school and work" or "only ...
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Is it possible to work full time and do a part time PhD in software engineering in England?
Is it possible to work full time and do a part time phd in the area of software engineering in England saying that I want to use my job earnings to pay my tuition fees? And if I start a part time PhD ...
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Minimum residential requirements For PhD
I have a permanent Job that I don't intend to give up. I wish to pursue PhD. All I can manage to get is 2 years of leave. Beyond that I will have to resume my job and I can continue research work ...
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Part-time UK lecturer - how much admin and what counts?
Can anyone give me a guide to how much admin a part-time university lecturer should be doing. My employer is so very vague and I have no idea if I'm doing too much, or if I can just say no. It seems ...
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Prepared for 40 Hour Research Internship - Changed to 20
A bit of backstory- I'm a rising sophomore undergraduate student studying computer science who is strongly interested in urban planning as well. This spring, I put about 12 hours a week of work into ...
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What is the best way of getting a part-time PhD in Europe?
I am interested in pursuing a part-time PhD parallel to having a job in the industry.
In particular, I am a financial professional based in Germany and I am interested in a PhD in Economics ...
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Negotiating Part-Time Lecturer in Germany
I am interviewing for a part-time (50%) program-lead/lecturer position at a university in Germany. The position is to set up and lecture on a new master's degree program. I will be finding more out at ...
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PhD Mathematics, University of Hagen [closed]
I am 30 and work for an IT company in Germany as a software developer.
I did B.Sc. in Mathematics (pure) and M.Sc. in Computer Science. Since then I've occasionally spent time with solving math ...
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What is the expected time commitment for a part time Research Master's Program?
Let's say I get accepted to a Master's Degree Program in Applied Mathematics with a Research Thesis component. If I take 1 class a semester for 6 years and work on my thesis each semester, what could ...
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How can US universities check whether graduate students work outside TA/RA?
Some US universities ban first-year graduate students from working outside TA/RA.
How can US universities check whether graduate students work outside TA/RA?
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Why do some US universities ban first-year graduate student from working outside TA/RA?
I read an email from UCSD (CSE department) stating:
M.S. Graduate students are not permitted to work at all during their first year (CPT or any employment) due to CSE polices instated by the ...
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Being asked to take up a part-time status [closed]
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I want to maintain full time status for now but my department is asking me to switch to part time status, I'm not certain that is a good idea since international students need to maintain a ...
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