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Why Grad Students Succeed

Inside Higher Education reviews a new book, Three Magic Letters: Getting to PhD., which examines those grad students who actually complete their PhD. The review focuses on the following:

  • "More than 30 percent of all graduate students never feel that they have a faculty mentor. "
  • "Students rate their social interaction with faculty members as high in the engineering, sciences, mathematics and education — and relatively low in the social sciences and humanities."
  • "Two-thirds of graduate students enter Ph.D. programs without any debt." This result suggests to the authors that high debt levels make keep some PhD wannabes from pursuing that goal.
Posted on Thursday, February 16, 2006 at 08:14AM by Registered CommenterLinda Abraham in | CommentsPost a Comment

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