The Path to the Ph.D.: Measuring Graduate Attrition in the Sciences and Humanities - Softcover

National Research Council; Policy And Global Affairs; Board On Higher Education And Workforce; Office Of Scientific And Engineering Personnel; Ad Hoc Panel On Graduate Attrition Advisory Committee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0309054826 ISBN 13: 9780309054829

Publisher: National Academies Press, 1997

Synopsis

There is a growing concern among educators and policymakers about the level of attrition from Ph.D. programs in the sciences and humanities at some U.S. universities. Reliable estimates of graduate student attrition are difficult to obtain, however, because most information comes from the administrative records of individual institutions. This book provides a summary of datasets that could be used to analyze patterns of graduate student attrition and degree completion nationally, along with an analysis of recent studies on the subject. Based on this information, the committee examines the feasibility of designing a system to produce national estimates of graduate student attrition.

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Ad Hoc Panel on Graduate Attrition Advisory Committee, Office of Scientific and Engineering Personnel, National Research Council

From the Back Cover

In 1991 the Office of Scientific and Engineering Personnel, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, asked two members of its Advisory Committee on Studies and Analyses, to serve as an ad hoc panel to summarize the existing data resources and studies on graduate attrition, with an eye on whether sufficient information is in hand to estimate the magnitude of attrition from graduate education in the sciences and humanities for the nation as a whole.

Edition details

• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0309054826
• ISBN 13: 9780309054829
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 90