Which is more important for PhD: Research Topic or Supervisor? | IIT prof discusses

Just before students go for PhD, a number of confusing questions come to their mind:

Whether to give precedence to the institute or to the research topic or to the supervisor?

There is no one correct answer. Each student has unique needs and has a career situation individual to him. And so answers to such questions need to be understood in the context of various nuances and subtle questions.

In an earlier video I had addressed the question: Should they go for a new professor or a senior professor as their PhD guide?

In this video, I focus on the very important question: For PhD, which is more important: the choice of the research topic or the choice of the Supervisor?

The short answer is: ALWAYS, ALWAYS the Supervisor!

I justify this answer through this video through a number of reasons, the foremost among which is that a great supervisor can actually teach how to do research irrespective of the research topic!

This video is part of a YouTube playlist where I give various general advice to students at different levels (Bachelor, Master, PhD): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjqHSJaE98hnbB3n6qZf0xH1QneBx9zwk

Video by: Dr Jeevanjyoti Chakraborty, Mechanical Engineering Department, IIT Kharagpur

Website: http://www.facweb.iitkgp.ac.in/~jeevanjyoti/ GitHub: https://github.com/jeevanjyoti4 Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeevanjyoti Blog: https://jchakraborty.wordpress.com/

Disclaimer: I am a faculty member in the Mechanical Engineering Department of IIT Kharagpur. However, the views expressed in this video are my own and do not necessarily represent those of my Department or my Institute.

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