你真的需要一个海外博士学位吗？（英文版）

A nice summary for the relation between a PhD degree and personal careers!  Actually, a doctor degree (even from a top 5 school) does not guarantee a career in academia. It is more important to focus on the quality of your work during your PhD study. It will be more appropriate to ask yourself these two questions: (1) How many papers (with quality) do I have? (2) Does my work have (potential) impact. If you have negative answers for both questions, a PhD degree will not help you too much. If a student is targeting an industrial career, he or she may need to accumulate more practical techniques other than abstract research work. In either way, a student needs to think about what is important to realize his or her career goals rather than just finishing a PhD.

博士一定比硕士、本科生强，这是中国社会的主流观念，所以如果是海龟博士那更是不得了的，所以先不管三七二十一，一定要先读个博士、海龟更牛！至于说使用与否，那已经是后续的情况了，很多人在乎的是本本，证书，有了他们，就有了敲门砖！
     不过事实求是的说，如果真的是学什么就干什么的，确实读个博士当然比本科生、硕士强，至少是经过了系统的训练，仅从同手能力就比而这强多了，此处我紧致自然科学，社会科学类的话，我不太清楚，从理论上也更为细致，深入!

I just want to go abroad. My purpose is so simple, I don't want to eat so many unhealthful food, breath so dirty air. I just want to improve life quality.

Yep. I really agree with you. Recently, I have been thinking about this question whether it is necessary or not. However, via some suggestions and other experiences are draw on, I think the most important thing is the connection between what you have and what you want, not necessarily depends on a degree like phd.  
So just keep fighting,guys!

估计为了提升自己的头衔吧

ywb0314 发表于 2013-8-17 12:52
估计为了提升自己的头衔吧

这个学术里不讲究头衔，看研究成果。

Well, I've thought about this question for days. The core is whether you want to carry on an academic career or not. If you want to be a faculty and do research in the future, an oversea PhD is necessary. But if you just want to enhance the competitiveness when finding a job, that’s something you need to consider, because the PhD in Economics or Business is not like those in Engineer.  

Although I don't have any reliable statistics either, I am confident to guess that the PhD in Economics might probably have more chances to hunt for a faculty position in the universities than the PhDs in other subjects, especially in China.

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