For the last two years, Harvard University has announced that for every five graduate students in years eight or higher of a Ph.D. program, the department would lose one admissions slot for a new doctoral student. The results were immediate: In numerous departments that had for years had large clusters of Ph.D. students taking eight or more years to finish, professors reached out to students and doctorates were completed.
No exceptions were made, and Harvard officials believe that their shift shows that there is no reason for a decade-long humanities Ph.D. (Thanks, Allen!)
Monday, December 17, 2007
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