The Key Differences Between North American and Oxford PhD Programs #podcastclips #highereducation

It's interesting, we were talking before, I did a doctorate myself years ago at Oxford, and Oxford has a similar approach to doing a doctorate, which is like, there's going to come a point when you don't need to take courses and exams anymore. This is the point for you now, write a big research project. And there's this sort of people who've never done a PhD might not know that there's the kind of little bit of a, I don't know, conflicting idea about how to do it between this sort of, I'll call it the North American model and the kind of the model that we're describing. If you're thinking about doing a PhD in a North American university, you're going to have a couple of years of courses with exams, and you're going to have a big set of exams that you're going to have to do. And then maybe you might be kind of like working on your doctorate and call it ABD or all but dissertation at that point.