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I generally found the professors with a PhD to be more engaged, driven, and generally capable than those without. just my 2c. I would guess that the internal q
by pnathan 10y ago
I generally found the professors with a PhD to be more engaged, driven, and generally capable than those without. just my 2c.
I would guess that the internal qualities that drove them to seek the phd were the ones that made me prefer them.
- foldr 10y agoHow long ago was this? These days the only people who are likely to be teaching you at a university who don't have PhDs are PhD students. And they're less good at it largely because they don't have years of experience.
- pnathan 10y agoI wrapped up my BS in 2006. A variety of people teaching underclass courses as the instructor of record were people with Master's degrees. A couple were ABD. I would hesitate to say that older profs were better; it seemed bimodal: either they really were significantly better, or they really were not very good teachers. I almost always preferred the people with deep knowledge and passion for the subject, regardless of actual quality of teaching, myself. YMMV.
- ams6110 10y agoA number of universities employ "lecturers" and adjunct professors who do not have PhDs, especially for undergraduate courses, summer sessions, etc.