16th January 2011, 09:43 PM
Also many people do taught MA then PhD- not sure on the numbers but it seems like close to 2/3 of archs do this. you find very few people doing the Mphil-PhD track. there are some though. you said Edinburgh- there if you have an MA you skip the MPhil and go straight into a PhD. PhD is still 3 years (they want their money) but you dont have to turn in a 30,000 word thesis after the first year. I am not sure how it is at other schools but it seems for the most part if you have one masters rarly do you do another- still have to spend the time though.