It's a bit of a long shot but I am very curious with this. I am hoping to study PhD however not sure if I would like to do it full or part time. What kind of attendance was required when you studied it? Was it so you had to be in university every day, or would only need to come in for few hours each week for a lecture and do rest of the work at home? Could you let me know, also what field and if it was full or part time? I don't know anyone else to ask since I don't know anyone who has PhD.
I am in the UK doing a full time engineering degree and I turn up every day 9-5 because I have trouble focusing at home. But I barely see my supervisor once a week and she doesn't mind where or when I work or even how much I work. As long as there are some results and progress, no one cares how much I turn up. Hope that helps.
Thank you rewt, that helps a lot. So do you ever have any lectures at all or is it more about just seeing your supervisor?
Like rewt, I prefer to work on campus, with a dedicated workspace and office hours.
Lectures would be in the first two years, but it probably depends on the program and what type of training you need for your methods and data collection. I'm using a method that I'm already comfortable with for a social science thesis (full time), so I only needed one class that met once a week, and got it done in the first semester. Any additional classes are optional. However, others are taking 1 or 2 classes every semester to familarise themselves with theories and methods. Supervisor meetings are only once a month, and can be done on Skype.
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