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A US PhD is considered more substantial and held in higher esteem than a European one.
by mtdewcmu 13y ago
A US PhD is considered more substantial and held in higher esteem than a European one.
- GuiA 13y agoReally? How so? I was a research assistant in a US lab, and we interacted regularly with European groups of PhD students/post docs/professors, there was never such a feeling. I have friends doing a PhD back home, and they publish at international conferences etc. just like their American peers. Citation needed?
- mtdewcmu 13y agoNote that by PhD I mean the degree itself, not the person holding it -- I'm sure highly talented people do PhDs in Europe. The simple fact that a US PhD is more time consuming would be enough to account for a difference in esteem. Check out arjunnarayan's comments on this same topic on a parallel thread -- he has more to say about it than I do. I'm repeating what I've heard, and IIRC I heard it from CS professors where I went to college -- the same one where Mor Harchol-Balter works.
- GuiA 13y agoThanks for the pointers to the comments. They're interesting to read, just like the replies to them.
- Irishsteve 13y agoBy you and people who must have some form of bias in their view of the world. A PhD is easily judged on the work itself, not who or where it came from. Thats the great thing about research, it can be really transparent.
- mtdewcmu 13y agoI don't mean to propagate bias. I don't really have my own opinion, I was repeating something I heard from insiders in the US PhD process. They no doubt have some home team bias. But how well the PhD helps you get jobs is something that's potentially measurable and testable.