Some UK and Commonwealth universities, once someone receives a Ph.D. or D. Phil. and does a significant body of research, award a D.Sc. if a graduate applies. In most cases this is done very sparingly. In other cases, it appears that if a graduate pays the application fee and has some threshold number of publications, the D.Sc. is rather routinely awarded. American universities do not have such a system as far as I know. So, a D. Sc. may be the result of a distinguished body of work, but you would already know that, or simply that someone knew where to send a check.
David Cameron Duffy Ph.D. Professor/PCSU Unit Leader/CESU Director PCSU/CESU/Department of Botany University of Hawaii Manoa 3190 Maile Way, St John 410 Honolulu, HI 96822 USA Tel 808-956-8218, FAX 808-956-4710 http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/duffy/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Thomas Parr <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, March 21, 2010 5:05 pm Subject: [ECOLOG-L] Discussing Degrees D.Sc. vs Ph.D. To: [email protected] > A friend of mine recently started an unnamed job working for the > unnamed > department of an unnamed state. A coworker of hers, > holding only a slightly > higher position, has Doctorate of Science (D.Sc.) and, much to > her irritation, > likes to remind her of it. This reminded of the discussion about > this time > last year of the relative merits of getting an Ed.D. vs a > Ph.D. I hope to > spark a similar discussion on the topic of D.Sc. vs Ph.D. > I will summarize > and repost the responses. > > Thanks, > Thomas
