The attainment of doctoral degrees at Flemish Universities: A survival analysis

Higher Education

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 741-757

  Visser, M S ^a   Luwel, M ^a,b   Moed, H F ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Dutch Flemish Accreditation Organisation (NVAO)   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attainment rate; Belgium; Doctoral degree; Flanders; Research funding; Survival analysis; Time to degree

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548755200     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-006-9021-9     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Ad Hoc Panel on Graduate Attrition. Advisory Committee (1997). The path to the Ph.D.: Measuring graduate attrition in the sciences and humanities. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
2. Allison, P. D. (1995). Survival analysis using the SAS system, a practical guide. Cary, NC: SAS Institute Inc.
3. Baird, L. L. (1990). Disciplines and doctorates: The relationships between program characteristics and the duration of doctoral study. Research in Higher Education, 31(4), 369-385.
4. Booth, A. L., & Satchell, S. E. (1995). The hazards of doing a Ph.D.: an analysis of completion and withdrawal rates of British. PhD students in the 1980s. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society), 158(2), 297-318.
5. Bowen, W. G., Turner, S. E., & Witte, M. L. (1992). The B.A.-Ph.D. Nexus. Journal of Higher Education, 63(1), 65-86.
6. Braun, H. I., & Zwick, R. (1993). Empirical bayes analysis of families of survival curves: Applications to the analysis of degree attainment. Journal of Educational Statistics, 18(A), 285-303.
7. Crawford, Seagram, B., Gould, J., & Pyke, S. W. (1998). An investigation of gender and other variables on time to completion of doctoral degrees. Research in Higher Education, 39(3), 319-335.
8. Deschrijver, H., Van de Velde, M. C., Van der Beken, H., Page, H., Waege, H., De Leenheer, A., Verlinden, A., Houben, J., Billiet, J., Smedts, D., Van Den Berghe, H., & Bouillon, R. (2001). Kemelementen Doctoreren in Vlaanderen. Onderzoeksrapport. Brussel: Kabinet van de Vlaamse Minister van Onderwijs en Vorming. Depotnummer: D/2001/3241/266.
9. Ehrenberg, R. G. (1992). The flow of doctorates. Journal of Economic Literature, 30(2), 830-875.
10. Ehrenberg, R. G., & Mavros, P. G. (1995). Do doctoral students' financial support patterns affect their times-to-degree and completion probabilities? The Journal of Human Resources, 30(3), 581-609.
11. Espenshade, Th. J., & Rodriguez, G. (1997). Completing the Ph.D.: comparative performances of U.S. and foreign students. Social Science Quarterly, 78(2), 593-605.
12. European Commission (2003). Investing in Research: An action plan for Europe.
13. Gillingham, L., Seneca, J. J., & Taussig, M. K. (1991). The determinants of progress to the doctoral. degree. Research in Higher Education, 32(A), 449-468.
14. Girves, J. E., & Wemmerus, V. (1988). Developing models of graduate student degree progress. Journal of Higher Education, 59(2), 163-189.
15. Hosmer, D. W., Jr., & Lemeshow, S. (1998). Applied survival analysis. Regression modeling of time to event data. New York: Wiley.
16. Kleinbaum, D. G. (1996). Survival analysis. A self-learning text. New York: Springer Verlag Inc.
17. Luwel, M. (2000). A bibliometric profile of Flemish research in natural, life and technical sciences. Scientometrics, 47(2), 281-302.
18. Moed, H. F., Visser, M. S., & en Luwel, M. (2000). Kwantitatieve analyse van het doctoreren aan de Katholieke Universiteit Leuven en de Universiteit Gent. Onderzoeksrapport. Brussel: Kabinet van de Vlaamse Minister van. Onderwijs en Vorming. Depotnummer: D/2000/3241/317.
19. Naldi, F., Luzi, D., Valente, A., & Vannini Parenti, I. (2004). Scientific and technological performance by gender. In H. F. Moed, W. Glänzel, & U. Schmoch (Eds.), Handbook of quantitative science and technology research. The use of publication and patent statistics in studies of S&T systems (pp. 299-314). Dordrecht (The Netherlands): Kluwer Academic Publishers.
20. Rent, G. S., & Anderson, B. J. (1996). Time to degree: Factors related to years in earning a doctorate. Sociological Spectrum, 16(1), 61-82.
21. Scott, F., & Anstine, J. (2002). Critical mass in the production of Ph.D.s: A multidisciplinary study. Economics of Education Review, 21, 29-42.
22. Siegfried, J. J., & Stock, W. A. (2001). So you want to earn a Ph.D. in economics? How long do you think it will take? The Journal of Human Resources, 36(2), 364-378.
23. Strieker, L. J. (1994). Institutional factors in time to the doctorate. Research in Higher Education, 35(1), 569-587.
24. Tuckman, H. P., Coyle, S., & Bae, Y. (1989). The lengthening of time to completion of the doctorate degree. Research in Higher Education, 30(5), 503-516.
25. Tuckman, H., Coyle, S., & Bae, Y. (1990). On time to the doctorate: A study of the increased time to complete doctorates in science and engineering. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
26. Van Ours, J. C., & Ridder, G. (2003). Fast track or failure: a study of the graduation and dropout rates of Ph.D. students in economics. Economics of Education Review, 22, 157-166.
27. Verlinden, A, Billiet, J., Smedts, D, Pyck, H., Page, H., & Van de Velde, M. C. (2005). Doctoreren in Vlaanderen. Research. Report. Leuven/Gent (Belgium): Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and Universiteit Gent.
28. Visser, M. S., & Moed, H. F. (2005). Kwantitatieve analyse van het doctoreren aan Vlaamse Universiteiten (1991-2002). Brussel, België: Onderzoeksrapport in opdracht van de Vlaamse Raad voor het Wetenschapsbeleid (VRWB).
29. VRWB (Vlaamse Raad voor Wetenschapsbeleid) (2002). Perspectieven uitgestroomde wetenschappen op de arbeidsmarkt. Studiereeks 6. Brussel: Vlaamse Raad voor Wetenschapsbeleid.
30. VSNU (Vereniging van Nederlandse Universiteiten) (2002). Kengetallen Universitair Onderzoek (KUOZ). Utrecht: VSNU.
31. Weert de, E. (1999). Contours of the emergent knowledge society: Theoretical, debate and implications for higher education research, Higher Education, 38, 49-69.