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Online PhD UK-University of Kent at Canterbury
By onlinephd | October 24, 2008
Today online PhD UK blog will be discussing about another UK university, providing PhDs and M.Phils with external arrangements (with low residency options) and Split PhDs. The various departments of University of Kent at Canterbury are mainly offering postgraduate degrees (Ph.D., M.Phil and LL.M) to students who intend to specialise in their chosen subject areas. Students can choose either taught or research degrees with an international and contemporary focus. As such, the University is regarded as the premier academic destination for research and teaching. It currently has a research and assessment (RAE) rating of 5. Students are immersed in a culture where critical research is highly encouraged. With the campus’ proximity to London and Continental Europe, the students are from various cultural backgrounds, which make the academic community diverse.
Various schools under Kent University boast of strong research culture and environment which is conducive for a postgraduate research degree. By this, you can take postgraduate research in any subject area you wish to specialise in and are qualified to take. As long as there are staff that will be able to supervise you, you can proceed with the program. With a very supportive faculty and student, you can have access to tools and information that will help you complete your research. Aside from access to online postgraduate research facilities, you can also ask for an external arrangement in which you will only need to be in the campus for six weeks or less. As some of the university’s departments are offering registration as an External Student. However this registration is only available if student will be able to arrange local supervision and facilitates (laboratory, library and computing facilities) and have a considerable and regular contact (in some cases regular visits) with relevant department and supervisor. If you are an international student, university of Kent can also provide you another option to register for a Split PhD, which permit the students to do their fieldwork at their home countries (two years) and spend one year at university in UK (3 months in the beginning to prepare the research proposal and last 9 months to develop their dissertation) .
Apart from their renewed Law department, PhD and M.Phil degrees are available in various and diverse fields like Chemistry, Mathematics, Accounting, Electronic Engineering, Medicines, Health Sciences, Psychology and many more. If you are an international student and looking for distance PhD from a UK university than the University of Kent at Canterbury may just be the best option for you. You just need to check university website about your subject area and availability of related research programs. You can also directly contact to university research office or related supervisor to get further information about availability and possibility of external PhD program or Split PhD in your subject area.
In this coming week, Online PhD UK blog will bring more info about low residency, distance or online PhDs in UK and around the world, so bookmark Online PhD UK as your favorites to receive upcoming information more swiftly.
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