College vs Grad School

newmassdad
Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:49:27 +0000

Sakky,

You mean to tell me that a PhD student would have been unemployed (income = zero) if they were not in grad school? That is the only way your numbers make sense.

And starting point for an MBA is a red herring, because if you look at the actual data (something you seem reluctant to do except when it fits your pre-conceived notions) you would see that most PhD students don’t go immediately to grad school either.

Time to degree? Please, whatever is in the water in Cambridge is affecting your reasoning. 4 years to finish? Look at the data:

[Baby Steps on Speeding Up the Ph.D. :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education’s Source for News, Views and Jobs](http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/03/28/phd)

Average time: 7.5 years. Shortest discipline: Chemistry at 6 years.

Maybe Harvard/Mit kids are faster. Sakky, you’re there, why not get the data.

Better yet, take a course on analysis of data to learn why you don’t make a case from outliers.