October 12, 2009
How to Help Graduate Students Reach Their Destination
Earning a Ph.D. in the humanities in the United States is demanding. It also takes years to complete—longer than in the sciences and the quantitative social sciences. For example, the median time from entering graduate school to gaining a Ph.D. for students who received their degrees in 2006 was 2.5 to three years longer in the humanities than in the life sciences, physical sciences, engineering, or economics.
In fact, about half of the students who graduate in the humanities
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