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  1. I addressed studying at different institutions as well. Read my reply again. I'm talking about people in general who have no idea about this entire field and comment. There are actually quite a few people at my school who goes to a different law school and "sandwich" the degrees, and I mentioned that part too. The gist is, if you aren't in the field and unfamiliar with the practice, don't mislead people with your assumption. That's much more gruesome than misreading the OP's question, and that's what most people in this thread was donig. If you don't get the difference between the two, then I don't know what to tell you. Cheers.
  2. 1. This is definitely possible, and many law schools offer dual JD and PhD degrees. But you usually have to apply for a law school and a desired PhD program separately and get into both of them simultaneously. Some schools allow law students to apply for a PhD program while completing the degree and become a dual degree candidate and vice versa. So anyone who says it's not possible have no idea what they're talking about. Even if you're an international student, this is possible. 2. But whether this is a good idea or not, I think it's debatable. The only time this makes absolute sense is when you want to become a (non-clinical) law professor. If this is the case, it makes absolute sense to do a dual JD and PhD degree for several reasons. 1. It's increasingly becoming a norm to have both PhD and JD to become a law professor. There's not a single assistant professor at Harvard Law who doesn't have JD and PhD degrees. Yale seems to have folks only with PhD degrees, but don't be fooled--their primary appointment is at a regular graduate school and their appointment at a law school is secondary. Stanford and Chicago has a couple, but there are more with JD and PhD degrees. The "lower" the tier is, you do see more assistant professors only with a JD degree, but there are many articles and stats that show that JD+PhD degree holders are strongly preferred in the field as a whole. The field is already dominated by JD+PhD holders now, and imagine how it's going to look by the time you apply for a legal academia job. 3. That said, I'm just going to be brutally honest here. If you want to do combined JD and PhD because you want to become a law professor, remember that law is a extremely prestige-conscious field, much more so than a regular academia, and legal academia is the pinnacle of it. So Economics or Political Science PhD are super prestige-conscious as well, but we're not even talking about top 10 or 20 when we're talking about law schools and legal academia. If you want to have a reasonable chance at a reasonably ranked schools, you do want to get into one of the YHS+Chicago (and broadly speaking, Columbia and NYU; if you can get Furman scholar from NYU, however, that's going to be a super competitive option for legal academia). Now, if you want to do a dual degree, that means that you have to get into a PhD programs from one of these schools at the same time. And you can't do a combined degree if you get into a JD only at Harvard and get into PhD only at Yale. It would be fantastic to have degrees from these two schools, but you still can't do a combined degree this way. So to do a combined degree, you'll have to get into the same school at the same time. All of these schools I mentioned generally have top- or highly-ranked PhD programs regardless of the fields, so you have to be extremely talented and lucky for this to happen (As a PhD student, I can't emphasize enough how much luck it takes to get into a PhD program on top of effort and talent). So if you want to do PhD+JD to become a law professor but can't get into one of these programs at the same time, don't settle with lower ranked JD schools, but take one and finish it and apply for the other separately. To illustrate, if I get into Penn law and PhD at the same time, as well as Harvard PhD and Yale JD, I'd choose either Harvard or Yale (I'll probably choose Harvard PhD because JD admission is more predictable; PhD admission is not. Applying for a PhD admission would entail a bigger risk), but I'll definitely skip Penn JD+PhD even if that means I can save some years finishing both degrees. (And at some schools, you might "sandwich" your degree even if you're attending different institutions for JD and PhD, as in finishing the first year of JD while deferring PhD for a year, and then coming back to PhD and finishing your coursework, etc. We have some who do this at our graduate school. But do I recommend this? Well.........) 4. That said, if you do manage to do a combined PhD and JD degree, you can shorten the period you're at the school. Since there always are a few students who are doing combined degrees, so law schools and graduate programs already have protocols where you can apply your law school credit for your graduate coursework and vice versa (though this might be less applicable if you're not in a law-related PhD field). TL;DR: Anyway, I assume most people who said it doesn't make sense or it's not possible to do both are not interested in legal academia. And the former is correct, indeed, if you're not hoping to get a job at a law school. But if you want to become a law professor or be in a field that requires or strongly prefers both JD and PhD, it actually makes total sense to do both, and many are already doing that. And so it's actually not hard at all to navigate the system as long as you can manage to get into one. And to be honest, I seriously think people shouldn't make comments so conclusively if they're talking about the field they have no knowledge about... It doesn't help OP or people who read this thread in the future. It's better to remain silent that making assumptions based on our own respective field and giving wrong information.
  3. Thanks a lot for the reply! I saw that Amsterdam has a one-year program, but I didn't know what to think of it because it's not in an English-speaking country. But I'm glad to hear that. I'll definitely look into the school when I apply for master's programs!
  4. Hi all, I am a PhD student in a different discipline working on a philosophy-related topic. I double-majored in philosophy in college, but I barely satisfied the minimum requirement for declaring the major and spent most of my time for the other major (which is now my PhD discipline). Since my research also involves philosophy, I've taken philosophy graduate courses at my current school, and several of my dissertation committee are from the philosophy department as well. But since the second semester of PhD, I've wanted to take a year off and solely focus on philosophy to fortify the foundation. And this desire is still here even after two years. For my purpose, a coursework-focused year-long master's program will do (And fortunately, my department and school is pretty relaxed with students taking a leave of absence for a year for whatever reason, and so as my advisor). I've gotten my education in the U.S., but most 1-year master's programs seem to be located in other countries. I've come across U Rochester's one-year master's program, but that's pretty much about it. I wonder if anyone here knows other one-year programs in the US? I'm also open to other English-speaking countries. I've found quite a few one-year programs in UK and Canada but other than obviously reputable schools (e.g., ranked highly in the Philosophical Gourmet, has strong faculty members, etc), I don't know which programs are "good." Also, I really have absolutely no idea how the UK system works/feels, other than the basic information each school posted on the web. So I wonder if anyone has a specific recommendation, whether it's for academics, partial funding for international students (I'm a US citizen), community, and whatnot. Thanks a lot! J p.s. Just to add more context, I've more-or-less focused on one or two sub-field of philosophy, so I'm looking to get more generic (analytic) philosophy education. Also, since I'm not planning to apply for a PhD upon graduation, I'm not too hung up about building a close relationship with one faculty member.
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