读商学院博士累，到底有多累？麻烦内部人给点提示。。。

gmatplayer

听起来好恐怖呀...彻底打消我再读PHD的念头了...

freelance

呵呵，如果把好的一面也展现给你，估计你又会考虑读商学院的PHD了

hunter_su

诸位，说的就跟笑话一样。

一句话说得好“因人而异”！

商学院博士申请人录取比例往往小于5%，如果像诸位说的这么累，或者没前途，哈哈...

jwodae

以下是引用jadelo在2006-2-11 3:37:00的发言：

I am now a 1st-year PhD student. I spend at least 12-14 hours per day on my course work, and this doesn't even take research/ RA work into account. Acutally what drives me crazy is not time pressure; it's the psychological stress.... when you get stuck with data issues or cannot generate great research ideas, it's really stressful. And I know that most of my classmates work harder than I do.

BTW, my undergraduate major was also business, and I already have two master's. Still, the work load is so pressing for me, and I still have to invest at least five years to get my doctoral degree.

Hey have a question for you.  How do you compare a  B-school PhD with a PhD in a cognate college/school? For example, PhD in consumer behavior is offered in many non-b-schools (such as College of Family Sciences at Purdue).  I know their phd graduates do find jobs in other B-schools.  Will this kind of PhD be less stressful?  Is it "PhD-Light"??  Looking forward to hearing more of your comments.  Thanks a lot.

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jwodae

以下是引用jadelo在2006-2-11 3:37:00的发言：

I am now a 1st-year PhD student. I spend at least 12-14 hours per day on my course work, and this doesn't even take research/ RA work into account. Acutally what drives me crazy is not time pressure; it's the psychological stress.... when you get stuck with data issues or cannot generate great research ideas, it's really stressful. And I know that most of my classmates work harder than I do.

BTW, my undergraduate major was also business, and I already have two master's. Still, the work load is so pressing for me, and I still have to invest at least five years to get my doctoral degree.

Hi, jadelo，are you in a top10 school? Top 25? Do you mind disclosing that?

Thanks,

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jwodae

是不是多数人都要4.5-6年才能读完，尽管学校说学制4年？

每周60小时的学业算不算平均水平？

jwodae

有过来人给指点一二好吗？谢拉。

freelance

感觉一般是5年，具体每周要学习多长时间就看你自己的了，你要是牛人，会做research和写paper,就学得轻松些，要是不擅长，那就苦些，当然前提是你想取得什么样的成果，以后发展成什么样子。所以Senior PHD的时候可以每天睡到自然醒，钓钓鱼，看看报，打打牌...，也可以没有周末，日日忙着出paper...

补充一下，最苦的日子应该是PHD毕业后，拿到Tenure前的5-6年左右时间，这样算下来就是要努力奋斗10年，好好考虑下吧

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jwodae

谢谢回答，freelance.  On average, is a top 50 school more challenging than a non-top school for a PhD student?

如何知道自己真地想/适合读博呢？

tigar

以下是引用jwodae在2006-2-11 13:07:00的发言：

是不是多数人都要4.5-6年才能读完，尽管学校说学制4年？

每周60小时的学业算不算平均水平？

Ya, many of them spend more than 5 yrs on it, they tease themselves as PHD : Permanent Head Damage.

Just kiding... I don't see them that stupid.      And they are actually proud of it, a PHD is very respectable. So the 5 yrs study is worth it, and it won't be as intense as MBA.