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. percent between 2020 and 2021, the steepest decline ever for the NSF’s annual census of new Ph.D.s. percent decline in Ph.D.s
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