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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 Teaching Assistantships
affected completion rates and time-to-degree? How successful have
national fellowship programs been in encouraging students to finish
their studies in reasonably short periods of time? What have been
the effects of curricular developments and shifts in the state of
the job market? How has the overall "system" of graduate education
been affected by the expansion of the 1960s and the subsequent
contraction in enrollments and degrees conferred? Is there "excess
capacity" in the system at the present time? This major study seeks
to answer fundamental questions of this kind. It is based on an
exhaustive analysis of an unparalleled data set consisting of the
experiences in graduate school of more than 35,000 students who
entered programs in English, history, political science, economics,
mathematics, and physics at ten leading universities between 1962
and 1986. In addition, new information has been obtained on the
graduate student careers of more than 13,000 winners of prestigious
national fellowships such as the Woodrow Wilson and the Danforth.
It is the combination of these original data sets with other
sources of national data that permits fresh insights into the
processes and outcomes of graduate education. The authors conclude
that opportunities to achieve significant improvements in the
organization and functioning of graduate programs exist--especially
in the humanities and related social sciences--and the final part
of the book contains their policy recommendations. This will be the
standard reference on graduate education for years to come, and it
should be read and studied by everyone concerned with the future of
graduate education in the United States. Originally published in
1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
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These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
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