Congratulations on taking a decision to be a scholar. With your plan of taking up Doctoral level education, you have taken the penultimate step of becoming a true scholar, who could make the academic world a better place by research.
Unlike Bachelor’s or Master’s level education, the Doctoral level requires a lot of thinking, planning, researching and interacting with the academic elite within your chosen department of your proposed universities, applying, following up and preparing for your actual research. All this is time consuming, laborious and most of all, involves intensive preparation. Go through the below points to know what is required to be done by applicants for the PhD program (any field).
- Determine your research interests
- Identify universities that offer Doctoral level programs in the field of interest in which you wish to pursue research
- Check with the department concerned within the university to determine if any active research is being one at the moment
- Shortlist Professors who are doing research in your area of interest
- Contact Professors to determine if they would like to provide the opportunity for further research in the subject/area of interest
- Submit an abstract of his research interest to professors in different universities
- Interact on a regular basis till the professors make a decision on whether to ‘guide’ you or not
- After professors’ approval, has to apply to the Graduate School and respective departments of the universities
- Universities will then make a decision on his application after seeking approval from the professor and department concerned
- Determine whether you have to take the
- admission test such as GRE
- language proficiency test such as IELTS, TOEFL, or PTE
