OT: Postgraduate studies

[Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Elazar Leibovich <elazarl at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2011/7/28 Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda <ladypine at gmail.com>
>
>>
>> In addition, it is usually frowned upon by both employers and academy.
>>
>
> Quoting my conversation with the head of applied math department in TAU:
>
> - Is it possible to learn here during full time job?
> - Most of our students here are studying while working.
>
> So I'm not sure how much is that frowned in all Universities.
>

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.

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.


-- 
Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda.
http://ladypine.org
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