Astro2020 APC白皮书：实现硕士学位，迈向博士学位
Astro2020 APC White Paper: Enabling Terminal Master's Degrees as a Step Towards a Ph.D
摘要：
获得物理学或天文学的任何高级学位都是一个艰巨的过程和重大成就。然而，并不是每一个博士学位的旅程。都是平等的。每年，有数百名学生在美国获得物理学和天文学的终端硕士学位。硕士学位本身就足以胜任许多好的职业，但对这些学生中的一部分来说，硕士学位并不是研究生教育的最后一步。当拥有硕士学位的学生决定继续接受教育并被博士学位录取时，程序，他们经常发现，他们的学分不转移，他们将被要求重新做他们的硕士学位的大部分在他们的新的博士学位。授予机构。在这里，我们讨论了收集更多数据的必要性，以了解获得博士学位的不同途径。以及选择每一条路线的学生。我们还讨论了学生在开始攻读博士学位之前获得硕士学位所面临的一些挑战。程序.作为完成硕士和博士学位的物理科学专业的学生。在不同的学校需要超过2年的时间才能获得博士学位。与从同一所学校获得两个学位的学生相比，我们建议采取措施帮助这些学生及时取得成功。
英文摘要：
Earning any advanced degree in physics or astronomy is an arduous process and major accomplishment. However, not every journey to the Ph.D. is paved equally. Every year, there are hundreds of students who earn terminal master's degrees in physics and astronomy in the United States. A master's degree on its own is sufficient qualification for many good careers, but for a portion of these students, the master's degree is not the final step in graduate education. When students with master's degrees decide to continue their education and are accepted to Ph.D. programs, they often find that their credits do not transfer and that they will be required to re-do large portions of their master's degree at their new Ph.D.-granting institution. Here we discuss the need for gathering more data to understand both the different pathways to a Ph.D. and the students that choose each route. We also discuss some of the challenges faced by students that earn a master's degree before beginning a Ph.D. program. As students in the physical sciences that complete a master's and a Ph.D. at different schools take over 2 years longer to reach a Ph.D. than students that get both degrees from the same school, we suggest steps that can be taken to help these students succeed in a timely manner.
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