To become a PhD student you need a degree at University. My degree took me 4 years, and after that I applied for a PhD and was lucky to be offered one at Imperial College in London.
Emma’s got this one pretty much covered. You need a degree to do a PhD and it took me four years to get one of those. Then I did another year of university (optional!) and applied to about 15 PhD places (most people don’t apply to nearly as many), I was offered a couple and decided to the one I’m working on now!
Its the same in Australia as well. Most people do a three year bachelor’s degree at University, then follow that up with either a one year Honours year (which involves doing research, kind of like a mini-PhD) or a two year Masters degree. I actually took a bit longer to do my PhD though, as I stopped my first try at one after 2 and a half years. I did a few other things for 3 years after that, and then started a completely new PhD. I finished that one in four years.
I did 5 years of university before starting my PhD! But some people have different paths. In my field there are a lot of people who work at LIGO for a few years before starting their PhD.
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Ali Hussain
answered on 12 Jun 2019:
last edited 21 Jun 2019 11:33 am
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I did my MPhys in 4yrs at the University of Southampton. I did my IB in Sweden before that.
Thank you for answering! So the average amount of time spent on PhD is 4 years. Wow! That is dedication. (I think I would give up after a month or something lol I don’t have barely any patience) How old were you guys when you started your PhD??
Yeah my PhD will take 3.5 years, and I’m on my 2nd at the moment! I started my PhD at 23 – I had a year working at the European Space Agency before I started, and managed to defer the PhD for a year, otherwise I would’ve been 22.
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anon-219933 commented on :
Thank you for answering! So the average amount of time spent on PhD is 4 years. Wow! That is dedication. (I think I would give up after a month or something lol I don’t have barely any patience) How old were you guys when you started your PhD??
Bella commented on :
In America PhDs last a whole bunch longer, but that’s because they don’t specialize quite as much in their degrees.
Bella commented on :
I was 23 when I started my PhD.
Emma commented on :
Yeah my PhD will take 3.5 years, and I’m on my 2nd at the moment! I started my PhD at 23 – I had a year working at the European Space Agency before I started, and managed to defer the PhD for a year, otherwise I would’ve been 22.
anon-219933 commented on :
Oh ok that’s so cool thank you for letting me know!!