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 ...

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 ...

A shortage of computing doctorates—a vital workforce responsible for driving advances in artificial intelligence, bolstering cybersecurity, and training the next-generation of computing leaders—would ...

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When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

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 ...

The Psychology and Law concentration trains students to take basic social, developmental, and cognitive principles and apply them to issues in the legal system. Students in this program typically have ...

RIT Policy D01.0 (Policies for Curriculum Development), Section IV (Academic Programs) provides guidance for developing a new academic program at RIT. Review the New Doctoral Program: Proposal ...

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 ...

I know that the idea of grad school in America and “protecting your wallet” seems antonymous (just ask my student loans). However, a recent report conducted by The Century Foundation found that HBCU ...