What concerns me more then EdD vs PhD is getting a PhD without fist getting a Master's degree. Whenever I see an applicant with a PhD and no Master's, I view their PhD as either a glorified Master's or a watered down PhD. I know there are advantages for doing this for both the school and students but call me old school I think a PhD should be earned without any short cuts.
Pete -----Original Message----- From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news [mailto:ecolo...@listserv.umd.edu] On Behalf Of Mitch Cruzan Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 8:58 AM To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] EdD vs PhD Whether it sits right with you or not, it is true. Not everybody has the same intellectual ability, the same as we are not all able to be Olympic athletes no matter how hard we work. Otherwise, universities would not require high scores on entrance exams for undergraduate study, and we would not require our applicants to our PhD programs to perform well on GREs. This is not elitism, it is just a consequence of genetic variation in human populations.
