I'm sure that these people are very good. But speaking of LLM students, it is not exactly unknown for NLU students to do their LLM from NLUs too including their own alma. Several other NLUs have done it regularly in the past, including NLSIU before Sudhir.
Pretty sure that the Harvard 'grad' came for Phd. And he/she was not a Harvard grad but a Harvard Post Grad. (Academia being the goal it is great from an India perspective to do a Phd from here. )Top 5-6 NLU grads still try to go to Ivy for their post grads. Obviously exceptions have always been there. The main post of this thread is pretty useless.
Multiple people holding a foreign masters degree have done their PhD from NLUs over the years, many of them because they were working in India throughout the duration. It's not exactly a novel development. Even NLSIU has had such students in the past, as did Nalsar, NUJS etc. This is just PR that's bringing it to your attention. But then, PR is what reigns supreme in this day and age.
Is there any particular benefit they'd get from attending NLS after already having a degree from Harvard? I'm just trying to understand the rationale as to why someone would so that? Is it for the purpose of entering academia in India or something?
^Second this person. An LL.M. is a money making machine, even for Harvard, so their sole purpose of existence is to sell you the Harvard brand. Getting a PhD is a different ballgame altogether and is immensely difficult. More so in Europe, where PhDs are employees, unlike the USA, where they are students and pay tuition fees.
This is the first time I've read anywhere that it's hard to get into a PhD program in Europe. It's all a question of university and the ratio of people applying to people who get in. And even that isn't necessarily meaningful - it all comes down to the supervisor for PhDs.
Yeh sab misinformation kahan se laate ho bhai? Just because you do not know this, toh galat ho gaya?
The supervisors of the PhDs do not admit students (unless you are talking of non-funded external candidates). European PhDs go through the same hiring procedure as Assistant Professors - pre-screening by academic sponsorship before an application, HR screening, academic committee screening, interviews by a different academic committee, and then another different committee headed (usually) by the Dean appoints the person upon recommendation from the academic committee that interviewed the person. Just so you know, PhDs in Europe, as employees, get all the fringe benefits that full professors get (thirteenth month salary, work-from-home expenses, hybrid working, travel allowance, research funding etc.) - their salaries are just unequal (which is also generally negotiated nationally by labour unions so good nonetheless).
(Anecdotal evidence: At least in The Netherlands and Denmark, for every single PhD vacancy advertised, about 120 people apply). And yes, PhDs are not admitted for a programme, they apply against vacancies just like any other job.
Fabulous. Sudhir has really made NLS an aspirational destination even for foreign grads. Soon foreign students will also want to come for UG only to NLS
WRONG. Elihu Yale was an NLS alumni. 'Collegiate School' did not sound nice, so it was named after Yale, thinking that the name of an NLS alumni might make the institution a better place. Look where they are today. Wannabe NLS.
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https://www.nls.ac.in/news-events/meet-our-new-phd-scholars/
https://www.nls.ac.in/news-events/meet-our-new-students-llm-batch-2021-22/
The supervisors of the PhDs do not admit students (unless you are talking of non-funded external candidates). European PhDs go through the same hiring procedure as Assistant Professors - pre-screening by academic sponsorship before an application, HR screening, academic committee screening, interviews by a different academic committee, and then another different committee headed (usually) by the Dean appoints the person upon recommendation from the academic committee that interviewed the person. Just so you know, PhDs in Europe, as employees, get all the fringe benefits that full professors get (thirteenth month salary, work-from-home expenses, hybrid working, travel allowance, research funding etc.) - their salaries are just unequal (which is also generally negotiated nationally by labour unions so good nonetheless).
(Anecdotal evidence: At least in The Netherlands and Denmark, for every single PhD vacancy advertised, about 120 people apply). And yes, PhDs are not admitted for a programme, they apply against vacancies just like any other job.