Around 1% of the global population has a Ph.D. It's the highest academic qualification, the result of years spent on original ...

Doctoral education in the social sciences requires a “paradigm shift” that takes into account significant changes in the job market and uncertain early-career prospects, according to a study that ...

Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.

May 2023 ushered in an exciting milestone for the computer science department at William & Mary: the 35 th anniversary of the first Ph.D. in computer science, which was conferred to Randall Meyer ’83, ...

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The University of Wyoming hydrologic science program is an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program that fulfills an important need by organizing a rigorous Ph.D.-level curriculum, with sufficient numbers of ...

Boston College will launch a doctoral program in computer science next fall, with a special focus on ethics and harnessing technology to benefit society. “BC will be equipping these students with the ...

STEM-OPT Visa Eligible: The STEM Optional Practical Training (OPT) program allows full-time, on-campus international students on an F-1 student visa to stay and work in the U.S. for up to three years ...

Imaging science Ph.D. student Diane Knauf is shining new light on old images with help from a grant from the National Park Service. Using polarized light, Knauf is researching silver mirroring in ...

Ph.D. candidate Ashli Wright knows science has a problem – and she doesn’t mean the actual problem that someone studies and tries to solve using the scientific method. Rather, she recognizes that ...

Weliton Menário Costa grew up in rural Brazil. "I come from the countryside of the countryside of the countryside," he says. He didn't have much, but from his earliest days, he loved to sing. "I just ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...