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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tarchon" data-source="post: 2440698" data-attributes="member: 5990"><p>My guess is that he also had a very nice committee chair and an unusually laissez-faire department. Most schools literally have a full-time residence requirement on PhDs. ASU isn't even what I would call a tough school, and all PhD students there have a 1 year minimum full time requirement, plus whatever individual departments want to tack on. 2 years isn't uncommon, and there are usually a lot of obligatory seminars and such involved with that. I could see somebody only doing a year or two full time and then stretching the rest out, but anyone who does a part-time PhD all the way through has had rules bent in their favor. That's not to say it wasn't justified or anything, but it would be extremely exceptional.</p></blockquote><p></p>