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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The graduate programs in environmental engineering from Drexel Engineering engages students in learning and research at the forefront of environmental engineering. Students graduate prepared for ...

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, ...

The graduate programs in mechanical engineering from Drexel Engineering engages students in learning and research at the forefront of mechanical engineering. Students graduate prepared for careers in ...

More than 50 doctoral programs in the humanities and social sciences won’t be admitting new students in the fall of 2021 — a response to the pandemic and ensuing economic turmoil. It’s a sort of ...

Ford Memorial Tower, Burns Library, Bapst Library and Gasson Hall on the historic middle campus of Boston College (Harvey D. Egan, S.J/Wikimedia Commons) Editor’s note: This article was published in ...

With internationally recognized faculty and a strong commitment to its graduate program, the Department of Applied Mathematics at CU Boulder strives to provide graduate students a high quality ...