<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Elazar Leibovich <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:elazarl@gmail.com">elazarl@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">2011/7/28 Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ladypine@gmail.com" target="_blank">ladypine@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div>In addition, it is usually frowned upon by both employers and academy.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Quoting my conversation with the head of applied math department in TAU:</div>
<div><br></div><div>- Is it possible to learn here during full time job?</div><div>- Most of our students here are studying while working.</div><div><br></div><div>So I'm not sure how much is that frowned in all Universities.</div>
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</blockquote></div><div><br></div>It is even encouraged in business management, for example, and in industrial engineering. But in CS in the Technion they require a 5 point higher grade average from external students, and extreme performance if you want to do your PhD as an external student. Prof. Orna Grumberg told me that the reason they do not like to take external students is that from their experience, these students rarely graduate. <div>
<br></div><div>Of course, it could be that tuition is so high in some faculties, and investment is so small, that they would not care if you graduate as long as you pay. However, being a student, I tend to take the student's POV - I want to make sure I graduate.<br>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda.<br><a href="http://ladypine.org">http://ladypine.org</a><br>
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