Does having little to no coursework in your PhD disadvantage you in academia? Also, in Australia, you don't need a masters to enter the 3-4 year PhD, you do an honours year after your 3-year bachelor's degree, which is like a 4th year where you undertake a 15000-20000 word thesis and get significant research training. You also have limited coursework in this year beyond research methodologies. So all in all, there is significantly less coursework. I'm also scared of becoming an extremely narrow researcher who only knows about his topic. My bachelors was in applied statistics (econometrics) and I am focusing on time series modelling and nonparametrics for my honours year thesis, but im not sure if this is what i wanna specialize in long-term. submitted by /u/GayTwink-69 [link] [comments]