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The Graduation Part II: Graduate Program Graduation Rates. EdWorkingPaper No. 24-1009
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Jeffrey T. Denning; Lesley J. Turner – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
This paper documents several facts about graduate program graduation rates using administrative data covering public and nonprofit graduate students in Texas. Despite conventional wisdom that most graduate students complete their programs, only 58 percent of who started their program in 2004 graduated within 6 years. Between the 2004 and 2013…
Descriptors: State Universities, Graduation Rate, Graduate Students, Dropouts
The Graduation Part II: Graduate School Graduation Rates. Working Paper 32749
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Jeffrey T. Denning; Lesley J. Turner – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2024
This paper documents several facts about graduate program graduation rates using administrative data covering public and nonprofit graduate students in Texas. Despite conventional wisdom that most graduate students complete their programs, only 58 percent of who started their program in 2004 graduated within 6 years. Between the 2004 and 2013…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Graduation Rate, Trend Analysis, Salaries
Eire and US Higher Education: Cross-Cultural Lessons
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Marcus, Jon – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2013
In July 2012, the executive doctoral class of 2013 from the University of Pennsylvania's Higher Education Management Program in the Graduate School of Education conducted a study of higher education in Ireland. The international study, an important component of the executive doctoral program, mirrored and built on research completed by Joni Finney…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Higher Education, Doctoral Programs
Counting Chickens before They Are Hatched: An Examination of Student Retention, Graduation, Attrition, and Dropout Measurement Validity in an Online Master's Environment
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Haydarov, Rustam; Moxley, Virginia; Anderson, Dawn – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2013
This article examines definitions, rationales, and calculations associated with higher education performance measures: persistence, retention rate, attrition rate, drop-out rate, and graduation rate. Strengths and limitations of these measures are scrutinized relative to online master's programs. Outcomes of a sample of students (N = 96) enrolled…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Graduate Students, Online Courses, Masters Programs
The Writing on the Wall: Doctoral Education in Texas and Elsewhere
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Cohen, Philip – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2006
In 2004, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board released a report that called for the state's public universities to be held accountable for the effectiveness and quality of their doctoral programs. The author believes that this report has the potential to transform the practice of doctoral education in the Lone Star State, because the…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Universities, Doctoral Programs, Deans
Chronicle of Higher Education. Volume 50, Number 20, January 23, 2004
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Chronicle of Higher Education, 2004
"Chronicle of Higher Education" presents an abundant source of news and information for college and university faculty members and administrators. This January 23, 2004 issue of "Chronicle for Higher Education" includes the following articles: (1) "Never Mind: An Assistant Professor Who Thought about Quitting Academe has a…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Persistence, Law Schools, Graduate Students