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| Abstract Title: | Investigating measures of graduate student retention |
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| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
| Abstract: | Research in graduate education has largely been focused around admission practices and retention. Within the physics community specifically, there is less information on the rate of students receiving degrees. Motivated by understanding the connection that retention has with institutional requirements, we propose three measures of retention utilizing survey data collected for decades by the American Institute of Physics. Utilizing these measures for the 284 graduate programs, we find that the average yearly retention of graduate students is 97%, and the percentage of first year graduate students who are awarded PhDs and Master's is 57% and 27% respectively. These measures highlight a significant difficulty in establishing a yearly measure for changes in graduate student populations, but a good starting point into the rate of students earning degrees. To further this work, we must ensure that the measures can become robust enough to be applied to individual institutions. |
| Session Time: | Poster Session 2 |
| Poster Number: | B07 |
| Contributed Paper Record: | Contributed Paper Information |
| Contributed Paper Download: | Download Contributed Paper |
Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
Bill Bridges Kansas State University Manhattan, KS 66502 Phone: 208-660-5980 |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
James T. Laverty, Kansas State University Jacquelyn J. Chini, University of Central Florida Rachel Henderson, Michigan State University |
