What is the full form of PhD

PhD: Doctor of Philosophy

PhD is an abbreviation stands for Doctor of Philosophy. It is also called Ph.D, D.Phil or DPhil in some countries. A doctorate degree achiever can able to use a "Dr." title in front of his/her name and referred as a doctor.

PhD is a very prestigious and one of the highest earned academic degree conferred by any university. Most PhD degree requires the completion of coursework, comprehensive exams, and a dissertation. It is a post graduation program and takes years of research and one have to published and accessed his work to be awarded with a PhD degree. It takes at least 3 years of supervision for your original research work.

History

In the universities of Medieval Europe, study was organized in four faculties:The basic faculty of Arts, and three higher faculties: Theology, Medicine and Law. All of these faculties awarded intermediate degree as bachelor degree and for final degree master and doctor were used.

This is a list of subjects for PhD degree.

• Engineering
• Biochemistry
• Biotechnology
• Chemistry
• Accounting
• Economics
• Finance
• Health care management
• Organizational behavior
• Statistics
• Physics
• Mathematics

There may be a question occurred in your mind that why PhD is expanded as doctor of philosophy if it is awarded in almost every field. In the context of academic degrees, philosophy doesn't merely refer to the field of philosophy, it refers to its original greek meaning which is "love of wisdom".