Why do a PhD? There are many good reasons, and a few bad.
Many students who pursue a PhD, do so because they are passionate about a specific subject, and want to use their research time to make important discoveries within that field. One of the great things about your PhD is that you will be able to conduct your own research.
Should you quit your PhD or should you stay? That’s a question we all have once (or millions of times) during our PhDs. It occurs mostly halfway a PhD. It feels like for the last 2 years you haven’t done any progress. If that is true, it means that you only have half of a PhD to come up with all the sound results and to write a thesis.
If you have a PhD and want an industry job, do not rely too much on advice from people who have never pursued an advanced degree. Do not blindly take advice from people just because they have what you want to have. Just because they get paid more than you (for now), doesn’t.
I really need to vent! I started my phd about 5 years ago, and I submitted 1 months ago. When I started my phd advisor was really nice. We were a group of 5 different phd students, with a couple of postdocs and there was a really good atmosphere in the lab. During the phd I managed to publish one paper, with one of the postdoc I was working with.
The average student takes 8.2 years to obtain a doctoral degree, that figure is assuming you begin your bachelor's and stay a student all the way to doctoral completion. In most cases, students return to school at a later time to complete their PhD or Doctoral degree. The true answer is, it depends.
If you're a brilliant student, for example, but you love counseling (and not research), don't feel pressured to get a PhD. A Masters degree is likely more suited to your career goals.
Duration. The maximum registration for a PhD programme is four years with full-time study, or eight years with part-time study. Assessment. All PhD students are initially registered for a Master of Philosophy (MPhil), and the PhD registration is confirmed after the successful completion of an upgrade assessment (at the end of year 1 for full-time students and year 2 for part-time study).