Can you get another undergraduate degree while doing a PhD?

HT2010
Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:00:06 +0000

So, I’m starting a PhD in the fall, and I just had this crazy idea that I want to learn something completely different from my original field of interest, just for fun. And the school I’m going to is in the top tiers for this new interest, so I figured why not? I’ve occasionally seen older people take courses in a college as part-time students, but do grad students do it too? Do they sometime get another degree by taking courses as graduate students?

Don’t take this post too seriously. I should concentrate on my field (and that’s what I’ll probably end up doing, instead of taking random courses in a random field), but I am curious of the answer nonetheless.