What is a PhD? It is the highest level of degree that a student can achieve. It usually culminates in a dissertation of around 80,000-100,000 words, based on research carried out over the course of their study.
Before your PhD

PhD Application Tips
You may think from the title of this article that it will concentrate on how to prepare PhD application documents, but if that were the case then you would miss out on some vital stages of the process of applying for a PhD. If you do move very quickly from “I want to do a PhD” to submitting a PhD application then this could affect the standard of your application and could also have effects on your subsequent PhD experience.

