Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

Complaints about the lack of attention to teaching in Ph.D. programs are legion — mainly about the perceived disconnect between what we are trained to do in graduate school and what we are expected to ...

When Biju B. Varghese discovered that Saunders College of Business was offering a new Ph.D. in business administration this past fall, he knew he’d found a program tailor-made for him with the ...

A Doctorate is the highest academic degree awarded by universities in most fields of study. It involves several years of rigorous research, culminating in a dissertation that contributes new knowledge ...

As application deadlines for doctoral programs for the fall of 2026 approach, some signs point to a bleak picture of smaller-than-usual cohorts and paused programs in the next academic year. Many ...

Beginning in January of 2024, the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) bumped up the minimum required education level for prospective RDs from a bachelor’s degree to a master’s degree.1 It’s the ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — After the Missouri General Assembly recently passed two bills allowing Missouri State University (MSU) to offer research-based doctoral programs, Ozarks First spoke with one student ...

The Boston College Computer Science Department will offer a new doctoral program that will welcome its first cohort of degree candidates in the fall of 2026—a move that will expand the department’s ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Most of the colleges with the largest graduate programs in the country don’t have clear plans for ...

This is about you, the students,” said VHC Vice Chancellor Richard Jermyn during the event. “You’re the reason we do this ...

Boston College Psychology and Neuroscience is an inclusive department that values diversity. We welcome all applicants, and strongly encourage students from underrepresented groups and ...