Long considered the pinnacle of academic achievement, the PhD is now facing strong headwinds, including reduced federal support for jobs, research and graduate training.

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

Complaints about the lack of attention to teaching in Ph.D. programs are legion — mainly about the perceived disconnect between what we are trained to do in graduate school and what we are expected to ...

A Doctorate is the highest academic degree awarded by universities in most fields of study. It involves several years of rigorous research, culminating in a dissertation that contributes new knowledge ...

Madanat is interim vice president of research and innovation and lives in Sabre Springs. Love is dean of the College of Graduate Studies and lives in Encinitas. Over the course of its 125-year history ...

RIT Policy D01.0 (Policies for Curriculum Development), Section IV (Academic Programs) provides guidance for developing a new academic program at RIT. Review the New Doctoral Program: Proposal ...

A new graduate student workshop series, “Empowering Your Journey,” will take their place, but will not include the same first-generation, low-income support.

Starting this fall, Whitworth University will offer doctoral programs for the first time in the university’s 132-year history. The university officially announced the three-year physical therapy and ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

The Boston College Computer Science Department will offer a new doctoral program that will welcome its first cohort of degree candidates in the fall of 2026—a move that will expand the department’s ...