I completed my PhD in a top tiers university in France. Recently, I was contacted by my PhD advisor, asking for assistance with his new student.
Apparently, he is taking an US faculty to be his next PhD student. The problem is that the employer of this student want them to check if the PhD degree provided by my university would be the equivalence to a PhD degree from the USA. Therefore, they are asking me to submit my degree to the eveluation organization to see if it pass.
This is such an odd request for me. First, my university is well known internationaly, like, it’s one of the first that pops into your mind when you think about french universities. There’s no need to go through the process to know that it will pass. There are thousands of alumi who continued their postdocs in the US. Second, I don’t feel comfortable with submiting an official document of mine and then personally send them to people I’ve never known, for matters that do not concern me.
Knowing that I have no intention to ever work in the USA, should I just accept and help them?
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how does this involve you again?
I have a PhD from France and work in a US institution and no one ever asked for such a thing. Who is the evaluation organization? And why would they examine an individual doctoral degree, given that there is no course work and the these is what gets you the degree? What I mean is, all French PhDs are (to my knowledge) equivalent, so what is there to judge?
French PhDs are recognized through the world, so this seems like an individual problem, not a you problem.
Also, the exact situation is unclear in your post.
Academically.. a PhD degree is the same everywhere.
It means you cooked your ass studying 9 to 11 years, and survived being the pokemon (aka. unfulfilled clone) of some obsessive compulsive schitzo somewhere. For whatever reason.
I don’t know what kind of idiotic institution thinks PhD degrees in Europe come in a corn flakes box. They don’t.