New Data Offer a Rosier Picture of Ph.D.-Completion Rates

carlosb · Jul 18, 2007

The Chronicle of Higher Education July 17

http://chronicle.com/daily/2007/07/2007071703n.htm

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By the time the 10th anniversary of their enrollment in a Ph.D. program has rolled around, about 57 percent of doctoral students have their terminal degrees in hand, according to new data scheduled for release today by the Council of Graduate Schools.

That figure represents the latest and most comprehensive stab at measuring American Ph.D.-completion rates, which conventional wisdom has placed at about 50 percent since the 1970s -- a statistic that some observers in higher education have called scandalous because of the waste of time and resources that it signifies. The new data, which come from preliminary findings of the council's Ph.D. Completion Project, suggest a slightly more optimistic picture.

The most interesting of the council's findings is the suggestion that the 10-year mark may be too soon to write off some students as noncompleters.
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The new data mentioned above by the Council of Graduate Schools is available here:

http://www.phdcompletion.org/resources/index.asp#Presentations

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There are Powerpoint presentations on the subject available there. I found the one "Doctoral Student Experiences: Preliminary Results from the Ph.D. Completion Project Exit Surveys" interesting.

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