The University of Chicago is pausing or cutting back admissions in several of its PhD programs as the institution continues to struggle with its finances. The suspension or reduction of new graduate ...

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 ...

The doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.) degree is sought by those engineers who wish to become experts in a specific area within their field. The work for the degree consists of engineering research, the ...

Boston University has suspended a dozen graduate programs in humanities and social sciences, weeks after graduate students ended a months-long strike. For the 2025 to 2026 academic year, the school ...

The companies, from multinationals to startups, will provide expertise and resources for the training program and offer students placements.

The Accounting Information & Management doctoral program trains you in empirical/archival and analytical/theoretical research methods focusing on the role of accounting in the market for financial ...

The PhD Program in Biomedical Sciences (PPBS) is the entry portal for ten PhD programs in the biomedical sciences: biochemistry; biomedical informatics; computational cell biology, anatomy and ...

Amid ongoing federal budget cuts, many US universities have been forced to scale back or freeze PhD admissions. The impact of these reductions is already being felt by students, early-career ...

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 ...

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 ...