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What percentage of graduate students entering PhD programs in the arts and sciences at leading universities actually complete their studies? How do completion rates vary by field of study, scale of graduate program, and type of financial support provided to students? Has the increasing reliance on T...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Bowen, William G. (Autor), Rudenstine, Neil L. (Autor)
Otros Autores: Sosa, Julie Ann (Colaborador)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1992]
Colección:Princeton legacy library
Temas:
Universities and colleges > United States > Graduate work.
Doctor of philosophy degree > United States.
Educational surveys > United States.
Universités > États-Unis > Études des 2e et 3e cycles.
Doctorat > États-Unis.
EDUCATION > Higher.
Doctor of philosophy degree
Educational surveys
Universities and colleges > Graduate work
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Preface
  • CHAPTER ONE. Introduction and Principal Findings
  • CHAPTER TWO. Recipients of Doctorates
  • CHAPTER THREE. The BA-PhD Nexus
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Graduate Programs: The Dual Questions of Quality and Scale
  • CHAPTER FIVE. The Evolution of Selected Tier I Programs in the EHP Fields
  • CHAPTER SIX. Completion Rates and Time-to-Degree: Concepts and General Patterns
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Fields of Study
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. Scale of Graduate Program
  • CHAPTER NINE. Student-Year Cost and Its Components
  • CHAPTER TEN. Financial Support for Graduate Students
  • CHAPTER ELEVEN. National Fellowship Programs
  • CHAPTER TWELVE. Requirements and Program Content
  • CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Program Design, Oversight, and "Culture"
  • CHAPTER FOURTEEN. Recommendations
  • APPENDIX A. The Ten-University Data Set
  • APPENDIX B. The National Fellowship Data Set
  • APPENDIX C. Survey of Mellon Fellows in the Humanities
  • APPENDIX D Measuring Time to the Doctorate: Reinterpretation of the Evidence / Bowen, William G. ; Lordf, Graham ; Sosa, Julie Ann
  • APPENDIX E. Time-to-Degree and Faculty Promotion: A Study of Faculty Promoted to Tenure at Four Universities and Three Colleges, 1980-81 to 1989-90
  • APPENDIX F. Theory and Its Reverberations
  • APPENDIX G. Additional Tables
  • Definitions of Frequently Used Terms
  • References Cited
  • Index.

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