A 2014 NSF Survey of Earned Doctorates found that 95% of physical science students were paid to get their PhD. In an ever-growing society of college debt, obtaining an advanced degree in physical ...

Salaries for PhD students in the biological sciences fall well below the basic cost of living at almost every institution and department in the United States, according to crowdsourced data. Only a ...

Every day for 20 years, PhD students would come into employment counselor Melanie Sinche’s office and ask the same question: Would their doctorate degrees actually contribute anything to the economy?

Doctoral students at Boston University could be forced to take a leave of absence and lose their health insurance if they do not comply with new guidelines requiring them to return to campus in the ...

While postdocs are necessary for entry into tenure-track jobs, they do not enhance salaries in other job sectors over time. We used biennial longitudinal data from the 1981–2013 waves of the National ...

A recent report by The New Indian Express highlighted that the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (IIIT-Delhi) has raised its PhD fellowship to 60,000 rupees per month, which ...