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Proof you can suffer for a decade and call it expertise.
means The highest degree a university grants, certifying that you've done original research and are now officially an expert in your field.
from From Latin 'doctoratus,' built on 'doctor' — one who teaches — itself from 'docere,' to teach. The same root gives us 'doctrine' and 'document.' Originally a doctorate simply licensed someone to teach at a medieval university; the grueling research-and-dissertation model most people picture is a later development, especially entrenched by 19th-century German universities and exported from there.
- median time
- about 7 years after the bachelor's
- name origin
- latin docere, to teach
- real product
- one original thesis nobody else will fully read
- job market
- often leads outside academia entirely