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USA: PhD pipeline expands slightly
12.12.2010
WASHINGTON - The number of research doctorates awarded by American universities grew slightly in 2009, with virtually all of the increase accounted for by an upturn in Ph.D.s and other degrees granted to women, according to newly reported data from the Survey of Earned Doctorates. The study also documents the first drop in five years in the number of doctorates awarded to non-U.S. citizens.The report, which was released by the National Science Foundation, provides the first look at data from the latest cohort of the annual survey sponsored by the science foundation and five other federal agencies and conducted by the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center. The survey provides data on who the doctorate recipients are, the fields they are in, and -- increasingly important in this economic climate -- how they are faring in the job market.
The 2009 data show relatively little change (positively or negatively) in the job prospects for doctorate recipients over all, with the proportion of graduates reporting a "definite commitment" of postdoctoral employment at 70 percent, roughly where it has been since 2007. But within subfields, the variation was significant. Doctorate recipients in the life sciences reported a 2 percentage point gain in the proportion with definitive commitments, while those in education, health and humanities fields each saw a 2 percentage point drop.
And the types of positions reported by the doctorate recipients suggests that those who were finding jobs were less likely to find permanent positions, even in the sciences. Of those 2009 recipients reporting a "definite commitment" of a job after grad school, 33.6 percent said they would have a postdoc position, up from 31.6 percent in 2008, while the proportion saying they were employed in academe dipped to 36.1 percent from 37.5 percent in 2008.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
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