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This was an interesting read; I was shocked to find so many seemed to enter straight into PhD programmes after completing school. Most were done by the time the
by hansvs 5y ago
This was an interesting read; I was shocked to find so many seemed to enter straight into PhD programmes after completing school. Most were done by the time they were 25. Wow!
- abecedarius 5y agoI don't think that was unusual at the time? Mean age of finishing a PhD has gone up over the decades, though I can't give a figure from memory, and there may be a U.S./Europe difference too.
- jleyank 5y agoGetting a PhD young is mostly the luck of a birthdate and a benevolent advisor (and probably a non-experimental topic). Isn’t the uk system 3-year which makes it more likely. The trick is the pertinence of the work that’s done and who you impress.