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<p>I agree with DSP that age is considered a factor in only a few programs. Math and CS (which, at the PhD level, is quite similar to math) immediately come to mind. The reason for that has to do with the strong perception that relatively few brilliant math and CS insights are discovered by those beyond a certain age. Whether that perception is true or not, the perception certainly exists. G.H. Hardy, the brilliant British number theorist, once wrote that “No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man’s game.”</p>

<p>But for the vast majority of fields, age is not a problem. </p>

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<p>Actually, yeah you can.</p>

<p>As a case in point, consider the School of Construction at the University of Southern Mississippi. Many of the professors there have just master’s degrees. For example, Desmond Fletcher is Director and Associate Prof at that school, yet he only has a master’s degree. Jeff Hannon is Assistant Professor there, and he also has only a master’s.</p>

<p><a href=“http://construction.usm.edu/html/fac_index.php[/url]”>http://construction.usm.edu/html/fac_index.php&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://www.jeff.hannon.com/pers/John%20Jeffrey%20Hannon_CV07_External.pdf[/url]”>http://www.jeff.hannon.com/pers/John%20Jeffrey%20Hannon_CV07_External.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Yet the University of Southern Mississippi is a bonafide 4-year college (hence, not a community college).</p>