Michigan State University Extension
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12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED343540 AUTHOR: Chan Kopka, Teresita L.
TITLE: Characteristics of Doctorate Recipients: 1979, 1984,
and 1989. E.D. TABS.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1992
NOTE: 106 p.; Some tables may not reproduce well due to
small/faint print.
ABSTRACT: This report on doctorate recipients presents
detailed data (90 percent of the document) from the 1979,
1984, and 1989 Surveys of Earned Doctorates. Aggregate data
for academic years 1966 to 1989 are displayed in table 1 to
show the changes in the number of education and total
doctorate degrees covered by the survey. Data from other
tables show the demographic characteristics of doctorate
recipients such as sex, age, race/ethnicity, marital
status, and citizenship; as well as the program areas and
fields of specialization in education; the personal
background characteristics of dependents and educational
attainment of parents; and economic variables, including
sources of support during graduate study, amount of debt
outstanding at time of graduation, and postgraduation
employment status. Among the survey findings highlighted
are the following: (1) among 11 program areas, education
registered the highest percentage share of doctorates in
the years under study, but its share is shrinking from 23.6
percent to 18.3 percent over the most recent 3-year period;
(2) 10 or more years elapsed from year of baccalaureate to
year of doctorate for 56.8 percent of 1989 graduates with
90.1 percent of education recipients taking this amount of
time; (3) 50 percent of the 1989 doctorate recipients
planned to work in academe and another 17.9 percent planned
to work in industry; and (4) 26.1 percent of doctorate
recipients were non-U.S. citizens. (GLR)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Comparative-Analysis; Employment-; Foreign
Nationals; Higher-Education; Surveys-; Tables-Data; Trend
Analysis; Units-of-Study
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Doctoral-Degrees; *Economic-Status;
*Financial-Needs; *Student-Characteristics; *Student
Financial-Aid
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