{"id":332,"date":"2009-12-15T10:43:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T10:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/?p=332"},"modified":"2009-12-15T10:43:53","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T10:43:53","slug":"phd-student-qualification-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/?p=332","title":{"rendered":"PhD student qualification rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Information from a recent course on being a PhD supervisor, run by John Wakeford.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 1996-7 cohort of full-time PhD students (excluding those not upgraded from MPhil and those not continuing into the second year):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>30-36% had a doctorate after four years<\/li>\n<li>50-70% had a doctorate after five years<\/li>\n<li>72% had a doctorate after seven years<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So about one in four of the students who initially register has a doctorate within one year of their funding running out.<\/p>\n<p>These figures vary dramatically by university. The latest figures are that in 2007, seven years after starting their doctoral studies,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>92% of those at Kings College, London, who had been upgraded had a doctorate<\/li>\n<li>62% of those at The Open University who had been upgraded had a doctorate<\/li>\n<li>26% at John Moore University, Liverpool, who had been upgraded had a doctorate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Success rates also depend on other factors: the best success rates are amongst international students, research council funded, over 30 at registration, with a first-class degree from other university, studying medicine or veterinary science. The worst success rates are amongst those who are UK industry sponsored, under 25 at registration, with a 2<sup>nd<\/sup> class degree from same institution, studying computing, architecture or languages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information from a recent course on being a PhD supervisor, run by John Wakeford. Of the 1996-7 cohort of full-time PhD students (excluding those not upgraded from MPhil and those not continuing into the second year): 30-36% had a doctorate after four years 50-70% had a doctorate after five years 72% had a doctorate after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-progress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}