Abstract
The National Research Council (1993) reports that time to degree has increased over the last 30 years. Total time to degree increased 20% from 8.8 to 10.6 median years while the registered time to degree changed from 5.3 to 7.1 years, an increase of 34%. Using the data of a single institution from the Survey of Earned Doctorates of the National Research Council, the present study attempts to analyze this recent change and identify factors associated with it. The increase in time to degree was substantiated by the current study both in direction and length. The time was found to be related to the characteristics of the students. Factors such as gender, marital status, number of dependents, ethnicity, age beginning graduate school, field, and citizenship status were found to be related, but not always in the direction expected, most especially when funding status was considered in light of these characteristics. Being single, male, white, and beginning graduate school at an early age seemed to shorten the p...
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