PhD

spezial

How can one with a masters, do a PhD? What are the available routes? Ie, he has to pay the university? Do companies fund them? Anything else?

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Self fund or research council grants & bursaries usually. Not very often employers will pay, especially nowadays with job losses and cuts.

Babbawah

spezial wrote: »

How can one with a masters, do a PhD? What are the available routes? Ie, he has to pay the university? Do companies fund them? Anything else?

I'd find it hard to believe that anyone capable of attaining a PhD would feel the need to ask MSE.

If you is asking on behalf of . . . then cut the apron strings, let them fly solo and have a good think about the above.

theoretica

Different subjects are funded differently.

tomtontom

Do you have a Masters or is this just another of your random questions?

phill99

Another random question from the 'spezial' one.

Paully232000

self-fund
find a bursary
sponsor
look here for a list of phds available as well as a lot of information about funding and access routes;
http://www.findaphd.com/

There is also here for lots of phds available and information;
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/phd

I got my funding through a research council, with a supervisor I was faimilar with, and in a subject i have experience in.

spezial

thanks!
I was thinking to get employed by a good company, will they fund my phd? can I do the phd while working, or it's mostly fulltime?

Paully232000

spezial wrote: »

thanks!
I was thinking to get employed by a good company, will they fund my phd? can I do the phd while working, or it's mostly fulltime?

You can do it full time, mostly 3 years.
part time, whilst working, approx 6 years

Sponsorship through a company you have just joined? Whilst possible I guess, would be difficult unless you had some other skill that they could not do without.

asajj

What is the purpose of having a PHD for you? It is not a walk in the park.
Companies only fund training if it benefits them in long term or it is a common practice in the industry (such as accounting training).

Overall, if you think it will make you more employable, I don't think this is the case. You are better of with gaining more experience.

spezial

I consider entering university teaching
but I can't stay unemployed or fund myself