In On-Line Survey, Graduate Students in Sciences Rate Their Doctoral Programs

By GABRIELA MONTELL

An on-line survey of doctoral programs in the sciences may help students decide which provide the best professional training for jobs in and out of academe.

The Grad School Survey at PhDs.org, a World-Wide Web site for job seekers in mathematics and the sciences (http://www.PhDs.org), isn't the first effort to rate doctoral programs in the United States, but it is one of the first to seek students'

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