Inside the black box of doctoral education: What program characteristics influence doctoral students' attrition and graduation probabilities?

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 134-150

  Ehrenberg, Ronald G ^a   Jakubson, George H ^a   Groen, Jeffrey A ^b   So, Eric ^c   Price, Joseph ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS   (United States)

^c NASDAQ Economic Research

Author keywords

Attrition rates; Completion rates; PhD programs

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250214110     PISSN: 01623737     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0162373707301707     Document Type: Article

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