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2026-03-23 19:22 UTC
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@Sobex@social.sciences.re 2026-03-23 19:38
@foxy 0) France, PhD in CS, defended in 2023. 1) 3 years after Master's degree (some rare school have PhD programs that package in the MS, for 2 extra years, but unusual afaik) 2) I don't believe there's an ECTS requirement, but there's a quota of 100h of trainings (with byzantine local rules, swith BS like entrepreneurship, a mandatory ethics training of dubious quality, PhD defences you attend may count, summer schools, etc). 3) PhD student are supposed to get a salary with minimum set by law (around 2k€/mo I do not have the exact figure by heart, IT IS A FULL-TIME JOB), no funding no grad school registration. My funding came with no builtin teaching load, I was paid by the "Vacation" regime, around 40€/h of eqTD (gross), typical yearly teaching loads tend to represent up to 64h of eqTD (TD == Tutorial == Recitation, Lectures are counted 1.5 eqTD). However, while in STEM PhD rarely last longer than 3 years, with extensions being usually limited to a few month, or no more than a year, and funded, some humanity fields do have unreasonable stuff happening, where student spend 3 years doing research, and then 2 years (un-funded) writing their manuscript, and usually reduced to living from short-term teaching positions (ATER, Vacations, etc). I do not have first hand data on this though. Always happy to answer more questions on France ridiculous system.