Can you get another undergraduate degree while doing a PhD?

juillet
Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:56:26 +0000

Here at Columbia (and at many schools) a Ph.D student can take any class his or her advisor lets him take, but honestly, you won’t have time to take enough extra classes to earn a degree. Or, if you are doing it right, you shouldn’t have time. Usually people take 2-3 graduate classes a semester (sometimes 4 – in my program we all take 4), in addition to doing research and teaching and reading and writing. When I finish all of the stuff I need to be doing in a day to work on my Ph.D, I just want to sleep or crash, not take a class in another field. (And the classes I wanted to take were actually relevant – I thought I’d brush up my French or learn Spanish.)