Confidence votes 38. 1  Approximately two years.  How long is the average dissertation, actually depends on what academic level you are in, undergraduate, Masters or PhD doctoral level. It could be a year or two depending on the nature of you dissertation topic.
An interest rate is the rate at which interest is paid by borrowers (debtors) for the use of money that they borrow from lenders (creditors). Specifically, the interest rate is a percentage of principal paid a certain number of times per period for all periods during the total term of the loan or credit.
DEFINITION of 'Real Interest Rate'. An interest rate that has been adjusted to remove the effects of inflation to reflect the real cost of funds to the borrower, and the real yield to the lender. The real interest rate of an investment is calculated as the amount by which the nominal interest rate is higher than the inflation rate. Real Interest Rate = Nominal Interest Rate-Inflation (Expected or Actual). Next Up.