Abstract
A lot of what we talk on this podcast stem from our status as doctoral students (although Penn is finally a newly certified doctor!), but what exactly is a PhD? The PhD is the highest level of education that people usually don’t go for, and the job market for a PhD graduate is quite bleak. So why does anyone bother getting it? Join us this week as we talk story about our own reasons for pursuing a PhD and what PhDs actually do each day besides just thinking!
Keywords
Sociology, phd, academia, higher education, grad school, graduate, doctoral, doctorate
Resources
- How universities are classified (Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education)
- Example process of submitting an article to an academic journal (Elsevier 2015)
- How to get published in an academic journal: top tips from editors (The Guardian 2015)
- Ph.D. Attrition: How Much Is Too Much? (The Chronicle of Higher Education 2013)
- a phd’s guide to the phd: why phd? (Living Sociologically 2017)
- Data Reveal a Rise in College Degrees Among Americans (The New York Times 2013)
- No college degree? That’s a growing hurdle to getting hired (Chicago Tribune 2016)
- Is a PhD the right option for you? (The Guardian 2012)