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xx, 442 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
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Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for In pursuit of the PhD / William G. Bowen and Neil L. Rudenstine ; in collabortion with Julie Ann Sosa [et al.]. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- List of Figures List of Tables Preface Ch. 1 Introduction and Principal Findings 1 Part One: Trends in Graduate Education Ch. 2 Recipients of Doctorates 19 Ch. 3 The BA-PhD Nexus 41 Ch. 4 Graduate Programs: The Dual Questions of Quality and Scale 56 Ch. 5 The Evolution of Selected Tier I Programs in the EHP Fields 80 Pt. 2 Factors Affecting Outcomes Ch. 6 Completion Rates and Time-to-Degree: Concepts and General Patterns 105 Ch. 7 Fields of Study 123 Ch. 8 Scale of Graduate Program 142 Ch. 9 Student-Year Cost and Its Components 163 Pt. 3 Policies and Program Design Ch. 10 Financial Support for Graduate Students 177 Ch. 11 National Fellowship Programs 196 Ch. 12 Requirements and Program Content 229 Ch. 13 Program Design, Oversight, and "Culture" 250 Ch. 14 Recommendations 268 Appendixes Appendix The Ten-University Data Set 290 Appendix B The National Fellowship Data Set 308 Appendix C Survey of Mellon Fellows in the Humanities 322 Appendix D Measuring Time to the Doctorate 347 Appendix E Time-to-Degree and Faculty Promotion 360 Appendix F Theory and Its Reverberations 368 Appendix G Additional Tables 378 Definitions of Frequently Used Terms 426 References Cited 428 Index 437 -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Universities and colleges United States Graduate work, Doctor of philosophy degree United States, Educational surveys United States |
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United States |
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Universities |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 428-436) and index |
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Doctor of philosophy degree -- United States.
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Educational surveys -- United States.
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Universities and colleges -- United States -- Graduate work.
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| Author |
Rudenstine, Neil L.
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| LC no. |
91032321 |
| ISBN |
0691042942 (acid-free paper) |
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