December 21, 2007

Graduate Schools Reduce Ph.D. Attrition Rates

By JOHN GRAVOIS

Academe has gotten used to bad news when it comes to statistics on how many doctoral students actually finish their Ph.D.'s, but a landmark study of doctoral-completion rates has turned up some optimistic results: American universities appear to be getting better at retaining their Ph.D. students.

That is one of the main findings of a new book, Ph.D. Completion and Attrition, released this month by the Council of Graduate Schools.

The book, which is the first monograph in a

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