Number of Ph.D.s conferred dropped 5.4% in 2021
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Image: Newly available data from the National Science Foundation suggest that the first full year of the pandemic had a major, negative impact on graduate students’ ability to finish their Ph.D.s. Degrees awarded in the life sciences fell 6 percent between 2020 and 2021, and by about 8 percent in the physical and earth sciences.
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