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| Quote (olegt @ Aug. 11 2014,12:43) | | Quote (CeilingCat @ Aug. 11 2014,12:08) | Georgi Marinov has a good comment on that thread:
| Quote | | ...Most of the top PhD programs in the sciences do not admit people who already have a PhD, and for a very good reason... |
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Not sure where that came from. Admission to a PhD program is a fairly flexible process with few strict rules. One of my former graduate students already had a PhD in Electrical Engineering when he applied for grad school in physics. That wasn't an obstacle to his admission to our PhD program, which is in the top twenty in the US. |
Depends where you are at, I suppose.
This has never come up for me. I have never gotten an application from a student seeking a duplicate degree (although I know our handbook discourages it, and maybe they don't apply).
In the biological sciences, funding by training grants is limited (to a certain number of years, degrees, etc). The disadvantage of admitting a student we'd have to fund all years would likely disqualify that student.
Why didn't your student retrain from EE to something like Applied Physics as a postdoc? We only live so long.
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