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Candidate of Sciences (Candidatus scientiarum – CSc., replaced by common Ph.D. in the Czech Republic in 1998 and by PhD. in Slovakia in 1996); Doctor of philosophy (Philosophiae doctor – Ph.D. or PhD., awarded since 1998 and 1996, respectively; requires at least 3–5-year doctoral study and coursework of 120-180 Credits)
This is a list of countries by the number of PhD degrees awarded in 2014 as per data available with the OECD. [1] ... Germany * 28,147
The East German equivalent of both primary and secondary schools was the Polytechnic Secondary School (Polytechnische Oberschule), which all students attended for 10 years, from the ages of 6 to 16. At the end of the 10th year, an exit examination was set.
List of credits given in one year in European countries [3] Country Credit points per year Hours per credit point Credit point name Status European Union (EU) 60: 25-30 [4] ECTS credits: Austria: 60 25 ECTS (also ECTS-Punkte, ECTS credits) EU member state: Belgium: 60 25-30 ECTS (also studiepunten, crédits, ECTS) EU member state: Bulgaria: 60 ...
The resulting value is rounded to the next German grade (e.g. 1.6 is rounded to the German grade 1.7 and 2.4 is rounded to 2.3). For resulting values between two German grades, the score is rounded to the better grade (e.g. 2.5 is rounded to the German grade 2.3 and 1.15 is rounded to 1.0).
The entry of students in the Natio Germanica Bononiae, the nation of German students at the University of Bologna, depicted in a 1497 image. Although systems of higher education date back to ancient India, ancient Greece, ancient Rome and ancient China, the concept of postgraduate education depends upon the system of awarding degrees at different levels of study, and can be traced to the ...
German Academic Scholarship Foundation, branch office, Berlin. The selection process is extremely rigorous and only those students who show outstanding academic and personal promise are chosen. The Studienstiftung awards scholarships to fewer than 0.5% of German students. [9] It is often referred to as Germany's "secret elite university". [10]
In the shape of the German-style PhD, the modern research degree was first awarded in the US in 1861, at Yale University. [21] This differed from the MD in that the latter was a vocational "professional degree" that trained students to apply or practice knowledge rather than generate it, similar to other students in vocational schools or ...