Hungarian PhD Students Abroad: International Contexts and Specificities of the Carpathian Basin
Hungarian PhD Students Abroad: International Contexts and Specificities of the Carpathian Basin

Summary/Abstract: The statement that the youth participating in PhD programs assure the academic replacement of a country or a region most likely requires no further justification. At the same time, statistically speaking, with higher education transformed into mass education, an increasing number of students have appeared on the higher levels of education. That raises the question that participation in PhD programs could be not only about the foundation of an academic career, but also about prolonging the stage of youth (pre-adulthood) by an extended school path. This youth moratorium can be regarded as the antechamber of becoming an adult: although PhD students are already grown-ups with a diploma in higher education, the fulfilment of their professional career is still ahead of them. They are equally affected by the challenges of finding a workplace related to the shaping of their professional identity and establishing the conditions of their existence, which presumably have an impact on their private sphere as well (marital status, willingness to have children, etc.)

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