PhD Interview number of applicants

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Hi Everyone, I applied for a PhD recently and have just been told I've got an interview. It is for a Psychology PhD where the research title and proposal are already given and funding is agreed for the successful candidate. What I wanted to know is how many people do they usually interview for this type of thing, will it be about the same as for a graduate job (i.e. 4-6 intereviewees)?

C

can't give a difinite answer but i have had a few phd interviews, and the number of interviewees ranged from 3-5. However I have had a couple of interviews where i havn't got a clue how many and they could have been much more.

G

With me [and thats just me] I went to 4 interviews and there never more than three other bods. For what its worth.

Z

For mine there were 6 of us, for 2 studentships.

S

For my PhD there were 8 of us for one studentship

P

For my studentship, there were 5 other applicants

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For mine, there were 8 shortlisted for 2 places. They couldn't interview everyone as there were too many applications. I applied to a couple of other Universities around the same time, one did the shortlisting on the phone, then invited shortlisted candidates for an interview (don't know how many).

K

First of all Congrads on getting shortlisted, it means they are interested in you and are a good fit for the project on paper. This topic just came up in my department, apparently it is normal to have about 3-6 who they have shortlisted here. Lots of variations with one guy interviewing everyone who applied (15ish)!

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