Indicator 6.11
Time to Degree for Ph.D. Students - UC and Comparison Institutions, 2003-04 to 2005-06
On average, UC doctoral students took about the same amount of time to complete their degrees as students at other AAU research universities.
Ph.D. students in the arts and humanities take longer to complete their degrees than Ph.D. students in other fields. This may be due to the additional time humanities students spend as teaching assistants, the more individual nature of humanities dissertation research or the fact that these students more often interrupt their studies for financial or other reasons.
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Source: Survey of Earned Doctorates, various years. This survey is sponsored by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Education, National Endowment for the Humanities, U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Additional information can be found at http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/srvydoctorates.
Data shown are for median elapsed time to degree. Data include Ed.D. recipients.
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