An overview of the history of graduate education in the United States, the current structure of graduate education at most US universities, recent challenges and changes within doctoral education and national responses to those challenges and changes.
Nerad, Maresi. (2008). Doctoral Education in the United States of America. In Maresi Nerad, Toward a Global PhD? Forces and Forms in Doctoral Education Worldwide, p. 279-296, Seattle: University of Washington Press.
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