UK, you can be done in 3 years and if the Wellcome Trust are still running their program getting STEM graduates into Neuroscience you can get about £20k per yea

UK, you can be done in 3 years and if the Wellcome Trust are still running their program getting STEM graduates into Neuroscience you can get about £20k per year stipend and your fees paid (my wife was in the first year of this program). I would say that getting paid to do your PhD and focusing on getting in and out as quickly as possible should be your focus (I am prepared for the downvotes, I was 2 years 10 months and started my business at 2.5 years). A PhD is a tool to entering academia (if you want) or getting a higher degree to stand out from the crowd in industry (the reason I did mine)/raising money.