im talkin accumulatively, including the years spent with the bachelors and master and then the doctorate altogether. i heard somewhere that it took somewhere around 11 to 12 years, but thats @#$%ing ridiculous!
2006-08-21 01:41:36 · 5 answers · asked by acidicspecies08 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
It depends on the area of psych you're interested in, the school you attend for graduate training, and what career goals you have in mind. If you are looking to land a tenure-track academic position at a major research university, you may need to spend a few extra years of grad school working on getting your research published. If you just want the Ph.D. as quickly as possible, you can often start working on it right after the master's thesis and be done in 2 years after that.
Your bachelor's degree will be 4-5 years, the Master's degree is usually 2 years, and from the Master's to the Ph.D. can be anywhere from 2-5 more years. So the overall range would be about 8 years at minimum and 12 at maximum.
2006-08-21 07:21:07 · answer #1 · answered by phaedra 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A bachelors degree is 4 years full time. A master's degree is 3 years full time. The COURSEWORK for a doctorate is 2 years, but then you have to write your thesis. Ideally you write one in 1 year but the true danger of going after any doctorate is your adviser can keep making you go back and work on it and change it indefinitely. It could take 3 years, it could take 5 or 7, it could go on forever. You have no recourse.
I had a friend who did a thesis on eating disorders. Her adviser said there wasn't enough data from black women - go back and do more research. My friend set up a booth at an all black college trying to get black women to participate in her research and she couldn't get any. Her adviser said "tough, keep trying". It took my friend and extra year to get the data.
And yes, it's ridiculous.
2006-08-21 08:52:11 · answer #2 · answered by Queen of Cards 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Generally a b.a. in psych is four years, a master's an additional two, then your doctorate can be anywhere from two to four years along with your clincial practice. So that 's about 8-10 years. That's pretty much on a par with any doctoral program in most subjects. People with doctorates work hard and are professionals. Psychology isn't just a bird course.
2006-08-21 08:50:22 · answer #3 · answered by Lizzy-tish 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some do it in 6.
2006-08-21 08:46:46 · answer #4 · answered by Puppy Zwolle 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends on your psychology
2006-08-21 08:47:30 · answer #5 · answered by unisoul 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋