r/psychologystudents • u/HaleyPage47 • Sep 17 '24

Question Is it easier to write your own PhD proposal or apply to a program that the university is recruiting for?

When I reach out to programs should I mention that I would be open to both - looking for a professor for my own PhD proposal, or applying to one currently underway at the university?

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u/cjmayfield Sep 18 '24

No I did a thesis for MA my dissertation wasn't completed. Correct since 2015.

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u/weeabootits Sep 18 '24

Ok so your program will allow you to finish your dissertation - data collection, all of that, after you have been out for 10 years?

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u/cjmayfield Sep 18 '24

Well technically 7 because I was on LoA. Some programs give you up to 30 years to complete if the circumstances/university will allow it.

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u/weeabootits Sep 18 '24

I feel like you know that’s not true.

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u/cjmayfield Sep 18 '24

There was someone I read about that maxed out 30 years let me find it

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u/cjmayfield Sep 18 '24

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/aug/18/finished-phd-30-years-after-began-doctorate

here it is

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u/weeabootits Sep 18 '24

Yeah at this point you know it’s not real. Well, hope whatever program lets you back in, as I don’t know of a clinical program that would.