• Question: What does PhD stand for?

    Asked by anon-251693 to Louisa, Tiffany on 27 Apr 2020. This question was also asked by anon-257617.
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      Louisa Zolkiewski answered on 27 Apr 2020:


      PhD stands for “doctorate of philosophy”. It’s the highest level of degree you can get at university and it gets awarded when you show you can you can think about a very specific topic in lots of detail. Usually it takes 4 years to do lots of reading and experiments then you write about everything you have done and what you think it means and why it might be important in a big book. Then you have an exam where two people will ask you lots of questions about what you have done and why you did things the way you did them. After that you might have to make some edits to your book and then you get the PhD degree and you get the title Dr.

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