Talk:American academic degrees

I put a lot of work into this article and I admit it is not complete yet--Rationalzombie94 (talk) 17:17, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

Minor factual issue

I can't speak for all MS/PhD programs, but those thesis/committee descriptions are way off from my own experience. The longest MS thesis I saw was about 50 pages; mine was 20. The typical PhD dissertation was 150 pages; mine was 100. Of course that was in a stats program and involved lots of math and graphs. Am I an outlier? Maybe. MarmotHead (talk) 18:23, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

I only put the information I found, I did not intend to be inaccurate.--Rationalzombie94 (talk) 14:44, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

There's a nice graph here showing how PhD thesis length varies between subjects, from less than 100 for math and biostatistics to almost 300 for history.[1]. Annquin (talk) 15:00, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

RZ, I didn't assume any nefarious intent. I assumed there was a wider range and that my dissertation may not be "normal". Based on Annquin's link, it seems it's my topic area that's unusual and not me. My brother's dissertation (theater history) was about 600 pages ... also normal, it seems. MarmotHead (talk) 18:49, 29 November 2016 (UTC)