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gonzo84
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| Thanks, Kent F. Kruhoeffer for all the schools on that list. |
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scot47
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| Will having a PhD in Linguistics etc increase your earning potential ? Or make it more likely that you get a job ? |
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OhBudPowellWhereArtThou
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| Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Will having a PhD in Linguistics etc increase your earning potential ? Or make it more likely that you get a job ? |
It will get you closer to a western university position as a professor of linguistics unless your concentration is TESOL You might as well get an MA in Literature and concentrate in Shakespeare. With a PhD, you might get a three-year non-tenure track contract, then sent on your way like a child. A recent survey of American universities indicated that something like 60% of all PhD's are adjunct professors. "Adjunct" is another five dollar word for part-time, underpaid, and underutilized with no benefits.
In China, a PhD might land you a high-paying job at a private international school, but I imagine that there are so many degrees pulled out boxes of Cracker Jacks that schools may not want to bother with validating such degrees.
In a public university in China, a PhD in bread making will land you a salary of approximately 8,000rmb per month.
I don't know much about Doctorates in the U.K., but a PhD in any area of the English Language will require a pretty thorough second language ability. In Literature, one is usually required to translate a text from one non-native language to English. This requirement often drives people to an MFA after they complete their MA and get a dose of reality. There are often teaching assistant responsibilities at one's school of study or at another accredited institution. (This is common for students who commute to class from one state to another).
You'll have a committee to please as well as someone who may or may not read and comment upon your prospectuses and your dissertation as you go about your research. (Someone mentioned benign neglect to describe the role of an advisor. That was putting it kindly. When one joins this level of academia, he'll think he has become caught in the web of the medieval Catholic Church. The politics and competition can be (and often is) hellish).
There is a LOT of purposeful reading. I could go on, but I think one can figure out if it is worth it to work so hard for so little promise.
I absolutely loved my university studies, but the BS politics would prevent me from setting foot on another American campus again. |
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plumpy nut
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| You're going to spend a lot of time and effort, and in spite of it you're going to be picked out for it regardless of the quality of your education. I think it's a bad idea. Look at how the Gulf States haughtily reject online degrees (just one credit rejects you). The Saudi minister spending time making edicts, eating dates and drinking Arabic coffee during work hours doesn't have as good of a degree as a Western online degree, unless of course he got it in the West. The West simply knows what makes a good degree and the Gulf State edict makers don't. One thing they do know, is that arrogance makes them look concerned for the educational benefit of the natives. The online degree rejection edicts makes them feel as if they're naturally above certain things, when everything else indicates that they're not. |
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