Timeline for Is it normal to start your master's study without an advisor?
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| Jun 18, 2016 at 0:53 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/743969879892631552 | ||
| Jun 12, 2016 at 18:21 | history | edited | Daniele De Rossi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 12, 2016 at 18:14 | comment | added | J. Roibal - BlockchainEng | You are asking multiple questions: Is it normal to start master's without an advisor? should i find a different advisor? is it possible to switch once started? All will have different answers, can you focus your questions into one, so that an answer can be developed? | |
| Jun 12, 2016 at 18:06 | history | edited | Daniele De Rossi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 12, 2016 at 18:06 | comment | added | Daniele De Rossi | I'm in Mechanical engineering | |
| Jun 12, 2016 at 14:48 | answer | added | K.E. | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 12, 2016 at 13:42 | comment | added | virmaior | @DanieleDeRossi it might be helpful to indicate the field. (in my field, (philosophy) masters degrees don't generally supply funding or require one to find an advisor as a condition of any sort). | |
| Jun 12, 2016 at 13:41 | history | edited | virmaior | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 12, 2016 at 13:40 | comment | added | Daniele De Rossi | @virmaior I'm admitted into the program. I'm looking to join a professor's research group , but both of the 2 professors I contacted said they weren't going to advise any more students in the fall because they didn't have funding for a new student. | |
| Jun 12, 2016 at 11:18 | comment | added | Kimball | In the US, in most programs I'm familiar with, you first start on coursework. Some programs are all coursework. What did the department tell you is expected in terms of research/finding an advisor? | |
| Jun 12, 2016 at 9:19 | comment | added | Anonymous Physicist | You should check the department's policies. Sometimes an advisor is mandatory, sometimes it is forbidden. | |
| Jun 12, 2016 at 8:07 | comment | added | virmaior |
The way you're writing is rather confusing. You're stating you've decided to accept admission but you're also stating that there's no opening / funding. / Do you mean you're accepted to an MA but don't yet have someone to advise you on your thesis? or do you mean you're not accepted but have a university you want to go to but the professor don't want to accept you there ???
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| Jun 12, 2016 at 7:58 | history | edited | Massimo Ortolano |
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| Jun 11, 2016 at 21:01 | comment | added | Daniele De Rossi | What do you need clarified Jake. I was accepted into a Master's program. I don't have an advisor. I contacted 2 prospective advisors , but neither was taking in new students. Should I take on an advisor in a different subfield or wait to see if one of them gets an opening. | |
| Jun 11, 2016 at 20:59 | comment | added | Daniele De Rossi | The country is the USA. | |
| Jun 11, 2016 at 20:50 | comment | added | jakebeal | I'm afraid I'm rather confused by the whole question here. Can you please try to clarify the situation? | |
| Jun 11, 2016 at 16:35 | comment | added | Massimo Ortolano | Which country? In certain countries (e.g Italy) you don't get any advisor during your Master's studies up to the last year, when you start working on your thesis and, even then, you don't get any funding (or you get it very rarely for exceptional reasons). | |
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| Jun 11, 2016 at 16:27 | history | asked | Daniele De Rossi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |