Archived The Number of Ph.D.s Keeps Rising Despite Bad Job Numbers (theatlantic.com)
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'Yet few people seem to be paying attention to these findings; graduate programs are producing more Ph.D.s than ever before. '
'Despite calls for reform , the time spent in graduate programs hasn’t declined significantly in the past decade. '
'It may not be surprising that Ph.D.s in the humanities and social sciences are struggling to find tenure-track faculty jobs. '
'In 2014, students spent eight years on average in graduate school programs to earn a Ph.D. in the social sciences, for example. '
'After all, graduate schools produced two new history Ph.D.s for every tenure-track job opening in 2014. '
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