Thought about this myself recently, points to consider; Time: Depending on your level of experience a CCIE will take you 1-2 or so part time (or less) Depending on your country a PhD will take 3-4 years full time or 6-7 years part time
During that time: The CCIE will be a pretty hard slog but at the end of the day I can still earn a living in my day job, enough to have a mortgage and the take Mrs out for a meal every so often. If you do a PhD its back to student life of baked beans if you it full time, and part time would be financially easier but a hard slog for nearly 1/10th of your life! Cost: The thousands you have to pay to Cisco and training vendors is nothing compared to the tens of thousands you will have to pay to the Uni over the PhD. Career Options: An experienced CCIE will be able to get the top jobs in networking, a PhD on the other hand will be able to get the top jobs in research. Its all down to what you want to do in life, a CCIE is not transferable but a PhD kind of is but not so much at fields outside its speciality (my boss has a PhD in the Physics of Japanese Martial Arts, no joke!). Other Notes: Generally some of the top technical forums do not rank academics at all (with some very notable exceptions), just go to a RIPE meeting and watch the first academic come to the stage in a suit and tie and say, I am Dr X from University Y and the entire audience will cross their arms and start using laptops before ripping apart their lack of real world knowledge in the Q&A. Why not do a CCIE and a Msc/Meng or if you are starting out in the industry I would see if there are Professional Doctorate programs which may be of relevance as you can get credit for working normally :) Hope this helps, Bradley On 14 May 2010 02:00, Jay Zitcovich (jzitcovi) <[email protected]> wrote: > I don’t have to recert my masters degree… :-} > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Matt Hill > *Sent:* Thursday, May 13, 2010 6:04 PM > *To:* Ahmed Abo ghazala > *Cc:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [OSL | CCIE_RS] ccie or phd what is more important > > > > Everyone knows what a phd is. Only people in the industry know what a ccie > is. > > > > My mother would be proud that her son has a doctorate but she still has no > idea what ccie means. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On 14/05/2010, at 4:57, Ahmed Abo ghazala <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear all > > > > i want to know the numbers of ccie that have also PHD degree and > > > > what is the advantages of PHD over ccie > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please > visit www.ipexpert.com > > > _______________________________________________ > For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please > visit www.ipexpert.com > >
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