PhD, civil engineerig, environmental engineering?

Question

I would like to know what is best ( speaking of salaries), phd in environmental sciences or in civil engineering? and hat's the total duration of it? and what universities (US or Canada) can accept you to apply for a PhD without a MSc? Besides, is it useful to combine a PhD and an MBA? and what's make you better paid?

Answer 1

All a PhD in engineering qualifies you for is a job teaching college, and you'd make less with a PhD teaching college than you would working as an engineer with a masters degree. Any other job in engineering only requires a bachelors or masters at the most. Don't bother with a PhD if your goal is making money.

Answer 2

Civil engineering will likely pay more. My daughter is getting her PhD in civil engineering and expects to see a salary in the $100K range to start. She graduates next spring, which will be at the end of her fourth year at it.



Most schools will accept you without a masters but here is the problem. They still make you do all the Masters work anyway. The combined masters/PhD takes just as long as doing them separately. There is no advantage to take them together and all taking them together does is limit your options. Whether they will combine a masters and PhD is up to the individual adviser and how useful they feel you will be to their research.



You cannot combine a PhD and an MBA. You do not have time to do this. You have to do one thenthe other if you want to do this.



Note that most grad students in engineering do not pay for it. They get a GA and work for the school 20 hours a week and the school gives them tuition and a stipend for living allowance.

Answer 3

The resources below will help.