In Pursuit of the PhD /

In Pursuit of the PhD / / Neil L. Rudenstine, William G. Bowen.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
VerfasserIn:
Bowen, William G.,
Rudenstine, Neil L.,
MitwirkendeR:
Bowen, William G.,
Lordf, Graham,
Sosa, Julie Ann,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1992
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:The William G. Bowen Series ; 75
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Physical Description:1 online resource (466 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Preface
  • CHAPTER ONE. Introduction and Principal Findings
  • PART ONE. Trends in Graduate Education
  • 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
  • PART TWO. Factors Affecting Outcomes
  • 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
  • PART THREE. Policies and Program Design
  • 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
  • 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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