This study offers a contribution to our existing knowledge of the impacts of Hungarian social science and humanities PhDs on the graduates themselves and on their own personal and social environments. We employ new empirical findings—gained from an e-survey and from structured interviews—in an attempt to understand and explain impacts and lacks. Empirical analysis allowed us to identify certain differences in terms of usefulness in several respects, such as the specific sector of employment, mobility or the actual level of impact. The PhD education process and the degree itself have a more positive impact on personal satisfaction and on an individual’s career than on the employing organisation. A PhD degree in Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) fields seems to generate more in the way of benefit and impact in the academic field than in non-academic jobs—a difference which reflects on the academic orientation of Hungarian PhD education. All stakeholders need to devote further major efforts into developing the “dual” form of PhD education, so clearly benefitting the whole of the Hungarian economy and society.

这项研究为我们现有的关于匈牙利社会科学和人文博士学位对毕业生本身以及他们自己的个人和社会环境的影响的知识做出了贡献。我们采用新的实证研究结果——从电子调查和结构化访谈中获得——试图理解和解释影响和不足。实证分析使我们能够在几个方面确定有用性方面的某些差异，例如特定的就业部门、流动性或实际影响水平。与雇用组织相比，博士教育过程和学位本身对个人满意度和个人职业生涯的影响更为积极。社会科学和人文科学博士学位（SSH) 领域似乎在学术领域比在非学术工作中产生更多的利益和影响——这种差异反映了匈牙利博士教育的学术取向。所有利益相关者都需要进一步大力发展博士教育的“双元制”形式，从而使整个匈牙利经济和社会明显受益。