edupsy Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 Hi, I have been admitted by the master programme of human development, culture and learning science in the dept of educational psychology of UT-Austin. This programme ranks 10 in USnews, but after reviewing again the info of the faculties, I am a little concerned. Because some of the faculties are older age like 65+ years old. Will this affect the education quality of the programme if I want to pursue a PhD after the master degree? Does anyone know anything about this program or this dept? Please give me some suggestions and information! Thanks a lot!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdt13 Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 Congrats on the acceptance! I was accepted into the HDCLS PhD program. I can't say much about it yet until I visit next week, but this is one of the questions I have myself (although my advisor is one of the newer professors). Hopefully someone can shed some light on this, but I will also recap what I learn next week when I return. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edupsy Posted March 28, 2013 Author Share Posted March 28, 2013 Congrats on the acceptance! I was accepted into the HDCLS PhD program. I can't say much about it yet until I visit next week, but this is one of the questions I have myself (although my advisor is one of the newer professors). Hopefully someone can shed some light on this, but I will also recap what I learn next week when I return. wow, Congrats to you too. As I know, the PhD programme is highly competitive. Really happy to hear from you about your visit next week, can not wait to hear back your recap!!! Enjoy your time in Austin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edupsy Posted March 28, 2013 Author Share Posted March 28, 2013 Also really hope friends share your experience of older faculties would matter the master study or not? many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FreedomInEducation Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 Sounds ageist to me. Old faculty can be awesome - connections, experience, influence ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdt13 Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 I just want to make my position clear: I am more worried about being the only person in my group to be straight from undergrad whereas everyone else has had at least 2-4 years of additional experience on top of their current degree. Thus, EVERYONE is going to be significantly older than I am, so I need to make sure that I am not in any sort of inferior position because of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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