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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Students from professional degree programs — including medicine, dentistry and law — will be able to take out $200,000 in ...

Last year, the Trump administration and U.S. Department of Education declared new loan limits for recently-classed “professional” and “graduate” degrees, which could have future implications for ...

As application deadlines for doctoral programs for the fall of 2026 approach, some signs point to a bleak picture of smaller-than-usual cohorts and paused programs in the next academic year. Many ...

A shortage of computing doctorates—a vital workforce responsible for driving advances in artificial intelligence, bolstering cybersecurity, and training the next-generation of computing leaders—would ...

RIT Policy D01.0 (Policies for Curriculum Development), Section IV (Academic Programs) provides guidance for developing a new academic program at RIT. Review the New Doctoral Program: Proposal ...

A new report finds that graduates of for-profit doctoral programs in clinical, counseling or applied psychology owe more than twice as much ($175,109) on average as they earn ($87,136) four years ...

This is about you, the students,” said VHC Vice Chancellor Richard Jermyn during the event. “You’re the reason we do this ...

Boston College Psychology and Neuroscience is an inclusive department that values diversity. We welcome all applicants, and strongly encourage students from underrepresented groups and ...