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Direct linkMadeline Brighouse Glueck – Grantee Submission, 2025
Graduate study has rapidly expanded since the late 1990s, with women overtaking men in their enrollment in all levels of graduate degree. Once thought to be a relatively meritocratic space, due to increasing selection as educational transitions move into higher degrees, more recent research on graduate education has shown it to be a space where…
Descriptors: Social Stratification, Graduate Students, Graduate Study, College Enrollment
Goodman, Joshua; Melkers, Julia; Pallais, Amanda – Education Next, 2018
In 2014, the Georgia Institute of Technology's (Georgia Tech) College of Computing, which is regularly ranked in the top 10 in the United States, started enrolling students in a fully online version of its highly regarded Master of Science in Computer Science degree--the earliest educational model to combine the inexpensive nature of online…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Online Courses, Academic Degrees, Masters Programs
Leshner, Alan, Ed.; Scherer, Layne, Ed. – National Academies Press, 2018
The U.S. system of graduate education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) has served the nation and its science and engineering enterprise extremely well. Over the course of their education, graduate students become involved in advancing the frontiers of discovery, as well as in making significant contributions to the…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, STEM Education, Graduate Study, State of the Art Reviews
Download full textMulvey, Patrick J.; Nicholson, Starr – Statistical Research Center of the American Institute of Physics, 2014
A physics master's degree provides the recipient with a variety of career options. Some master's recipients will continue their education at the graduate level in physics or another field, where others enter the workforce pursuing a wide range of employment opportunities. This "Focus On" provides an in-depth analysis of physics…
Descriptors: Masters Degrees, Physics, Academic Degrees, Trend Analysis
Bos, Angelo J. G.; Padilha, Dalva Maria Pereira; Bos, Antonio M. G.; Gomez, Fernando – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2007
Every year the proportion of elderly people increases at a greater rate compared with other age groups, changing the population structure of most countries. Latin America has been internationally known for its higher percentage of young compared with elderly persons. The United Nations predicts that the proportion of elderly persons in Latin…
Descriptors: Gerontology, Masters Programs, Foreign Countries, Academic Degrees
Gump, Steven E. – International Education, 2005
This article considers the history and purposes of diploma schemes in Britain, specifically as the diplomas relate to the now more popular master in business administration (MBA) degree. The diploma in business administration (DBA) and MBA programs at Cardiff Business School, Wales, U.K., are used as examples in order to demonstrate differences…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Foreign Countries, Business Education, International Educational Exchange
Glazer-Raymo, Judith, Ed – ASHE Higher Education Report, 2005
By 2001, 15.9 million students were enrolled in 4,074 American colleges and universities; 2.2 million were enrolled in graduate and first-professional programs, more than half of them--1.4 million--at the master's level. Graduate enrollments rose about 38% between 1985 and 2001; first-professional enrollments increased 13% between 1990 and 2001…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Graduate Study, Colleges, Liberal Arts
