Getting a PhD <i>should</i> be for people who want to go into research or university level teaching, but there really aren&#x27;t enough research &#x2F; higher ed teaching jobs for the number of PhDs supplied. The reason for the oversupply is that US universities use PhDs as cheap teachers, meaning that they don&#x27;t have to hire as many lecturers (who would be PhD graduates), meaning less jobs for PhDs once they graduate.<p>IMHO