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The article discusses the significance of four year doctorate programme in universities of Europe , Great Britain and United States. In the united Kingdom, the trend is up from three years to three and a half or four. With financial commitments from the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Wellcome Trust, the number of four-year programmes is rising. Ironically, the new European ideas are modelled on the US system, where four or five-year programmes often stretch much longer. According to a professor, students need to consider where their aspirations lie. If academia is not the ultimate objective, doing a doctorate should not be given.