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In Canada, research masters are a prereq for entering a PhD program.
by auxym 5y ago
In Canada, research masters are a prereq for entering a PhD program.
- simplestats 5y agoIn the US I think it's entirely up to the school. Or at least the accreditation bodies in different fields and regions. When I was in school, one applied to "MS/PhD" programs most typically. And all imaginable variants existed in terms of funding and likelihood of leaving with only a MS. Some schools would fund no one till they finish the MS stage, and others would fund everyone from the beginning (just give every accepted student a full fellowship for the first couple years). And also some schools were pretty notorious for kicking people out at the end of the MS stage, with a difficult exam at this step or not enough advisors to take them on for the PhD. One positive side, though, is if you wash out of a PhD program at any later stage, you at least walked away with a Master's.
- throwawayjd 5y agoI don't think so. It is funded and recommended, but direct doctorate is also possible, unlike many European schools.