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Ph.D. attrition rates | 5 comments (5 topical, 0 hidden)

[new] More specifics needed in my opinion ... (3.00 / 1) (#1)
by overconvergent on Tue Jan 13, 2004 at 02:51:28 PM PDT

The statistics do look very worrying, but one thing that should be taken into account is that this is an average over all fields, from high energy physics, with a very low attrition rate (~20%), to history, with a high attrition rate (~70%).

I don't know many good references for this, although I found a report from Dalhousie University about Canadian universities, which breaks down the Completion Rates as follows:

Life Sciences: 70.4%
Physical Sciences: 66.7%
Social Sciences: 48.5%
Arts & Humanities: 44.7%

I suspect that Math(s) is part of Physical Sciences for the purpose of this report (and I am surprised that the Arts completion rate is so high).

Ph.D. attrition rates | 5 comments (5 topical, 0 hidden)

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