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Originally Posted by I'm Phd Wannabe
I spoke to an academic in NUS and strange as it may sound, it was put forth that they were more interested in advancing theories and refuting established ones rather than finding on ways to commercialize ideas, which I am more keen on. More "academic" rather than "practical" if I may say. |
Hi PhD Wannabe,
It's a route (of sorts) that
NTU and
NUS are embarking on where they want to focus more on academia (hence, publications and theorizing) rather than applied or 'practical' research. Which would also explain why they tend to hire people with PhDs rather than DBA. Competition is rather tough now in terms of hiring, so if you want to be hired by either university as a professor on tenure track, you need to have a few publications in top journals as well as (preferably) a PhD from a prestigious overseas university.
Having said that, I understand that
SMU has a slightly different career progression path where the professors can opt to focus more on teaching rather than publishing papers and research. That track is called the practical professor track ( I think).
Alternatively, since you are in the IT sector, you might want to consider doing a PhD in information studies at
NTU's communications school. They focus quite a bit more on 'practical' research compared to the business PhDs.
Hope this helps somewhat.