Should You Get A PhD Or A Real Job In Industry? (A PhD Quiz)

Results

Moderate PhD Preference

You may want to consider doing a PhD, but you only scored moderately on whether it makes sense for you. You have scored moderately on the traits that many PhDs have that make them enjoy the PhD journey.

Read this blog post about how long a PhD will take you to complete.


PhD Or Industry Job

40 out of 60
Indicating high on this PhD scale suggests that doing a PhD or doctorate may make sense for you. This scale is based on crowd-sourced items from the R3ciprocity Community. It depicts the resources, opportunity costs, and traits that may be required to get a PhD over getting an industry job.

Scoring high does not mean you are perfectly cut out for doing a PhD, but it does indicate that you should talk to people if you are interested. Scoring low indicates that you want to consider getting a job over doing a PhD, but you should also want to get more information about whether a PhD is right for you.

Most people fall in the midrange of the PhD scale.

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