How may credit hours I can transfer to PhD

juillet
Fri, 22 Jul 2016 03:04:53 +0000

1. Depends on the program, but I wouldn’t expect to be able to transfer more than ~24 credits, and I’d be surprised if you could transfer in more than ~12.

2. Maybe. Each program will treat this differently, and it’ll depend on the content and quality of the independent study.

3. Maybe. Depends on the program. There’s no ‘in general’ answer to this question or the previous one. Each program will handle this individually.

4. You should know that coursework is not the major determinant of how long a PhD program takes. More often, it’s the dissertation. Let’s say that you are going into a computer science PhD program which normally take students 5 years on average to finish. (The average includes the time of students who come in with an MS, but let’s ignore that for now). Your coursework might shave a semester off of that, but your time to degree could be extended by a semester or more because your PI insists that you publish 4 first-authored papers before you graduate, or because you failed your first round of comprehensive exams, or because it took you a long time to get your algorithm that’s a key part of your dissertation to work, or because you take time off to get married or have children…etc.