• Question: how long did you study at the university or college youb attended?

    Asked by aelliott to Adam, Catherine, Karen, Leila, Nazim on 14 Mar 2012. This question was also asked by highpriestesswill.
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      Adam Stevens answered on 12 Mar 2012:

      My first degree was 3 years long. It was meant to be 5 as it was in Scotland (where it works slightly differently to England), but I changed from a masters to a batchelor’s degree and kind of skipped the first year because I did well in my A-Levels.
      I did another course after my degree for a year and then went to work for a while.
      While I was doing this I did an Open University course in my spare time, for about 8 months.
      After that, I went to do a Master’s degree for a year, and then started applying for PhDs.
      I only started doing my PhD last year.

      All in all I have been at university for about… 6 years.

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      Leila Battison answered on 12 Mar 2012:

      I did my first degree in Oxford for four years, but because Oxford has a silly system, i came out with two degrees!

      A few universities I applied to offered to let me start in the second year, and so only do two or three years, because I had already done geology at school. But I’m glad I did the whole course because I got more time with friends and learnt new things while I was at uni.

      I stayed in Oxford to do my PhD, to become a Dr. I’ve been at it for 4 years and will hand in on 1st May hopefully! So about 8 years in total.

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      Karen Masters answered on 12 Mar 2012:

      I spent 3 years doing a BA in Physics at Oxford, then 5 years at Cornell University (in the US) where I got a Masters degree and a PhD in Astronomy (sort of at the same time). So 8 years at university in total – technically for 4 degrees (because I also have an MA (Oxon) from Oxford, which is a special degree you get for going to Oxford or Cambridge). 🙂

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      Catherine Rix answered on 12 Mar 2012:

      my degree was four years long

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      Nazim Bharmal answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      I was at my college in Cambridge as an undergraduate for 4 years, and then as a Ph.D. student for another 4 years. So (almost) 8 years in total.

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