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Slightly, but not entirely. I wonder how many Chinese people want PhDs per year vs Americans? I'd expect the former is larger, partly due to sheer population si
by makmanalp 13y ago
Slightly, but not entirely. I wonder how many Chinese people want PhDs per year vs Americans? I'd expect the former is larger, partly due to sheer population size and partly due to the must-get-credentials culture that I've not seen in the US as much.
- fnordfnordfnord 13y agoChinese Uni's are PhD mills. Every student who attends, and can put up with indentured servitude for n years gets one. That's not to say that there aren't some very smart Chinese, and some good Uni's in China, just that the average Chinese PhD is meaningless. edit: (not meaningless, but that the avg Chinese PhD isn't equivalent to one from the US, Europe, Russia, etc.) source: Colleague with a PhD from China, and living/working in China for a couple of years on a research project.
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoThis is quite true. The best students go abroad to get PhDs anyways, or...maybe some very special institutes in China that are up to Western standards (e.g. Andy Yao's lab in Qinghua). Smart students still come out of these schools in spite of the PhD programs, but there are plenty of wasted opportunities.