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Message: <blockquote data-quote="luso" data-source="post: 8276" data-attributes="member: 66">PhD in what discipline?Usually, people with MFE and want to get PhD will be choose IEOR, Apply Math/Stat., or Quan. Economics.However, those areas do not have much funding to support advanced study.Unlike you are doing CS, ME, EE, CE, BioM.E, or natural sicnece PhD. u will have tones of money for ur study. Actually what Yuriy said is not always true. There are places(at least I have seen) your professor pays you pretty good money as a PhD student, but won't let you graduate. I know ppl did their PhD in 5 or 6 years, why so long? Cheap labor. Your professor provides you funding, but trying to keep you in the lab as long as he/she can. Often professors are lazy, don't like to teach undergraduate classes. So what they do is let their PhD students to do it. Therefore, in most of the cases, funding is never a problem at least for Engr. or Science areas. Usually, you need 45 to 60 class credits. That is like 2 years class work. Within that period, you will have to pass two exams. After the second exam, you are ABD. Certain schools have language requirements too, you need to pass the language exam before your ABD.I know for CUNY's Math and CS, the language choices are Russian, German, Japanese, or French.Thank god, Latin isn't on that list. LOL</blockquote>