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 ...

As universities retrench under financial and political pressure, PhD students are losing support — with consequences that ...

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 ...

More than 50 universities are now under federal investigation for participating in diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Most of the new investigations are centered around partnerships with the ...

UB is committed to recruiting the very best PhD students and providing them with transformative academic programs that prepare them for future success. UB’s PhD Excellence Initiative seeks to ensure ...

New York Institute of Technology and Stony Brook University are among nine universities participating in a “doctoral degree without borders” program. The multi-school initiative allows doctoral ...

Beginning in January of 2024, the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) bumped up the minimum required education level for prospective RDs from a bachelor’s degree to a master’s degree.1 It’s the ...

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 ...