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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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National Science Foundation (NSF)

Info Brief

NSF 11-305

November 2010

Numbers of Doctorates Awarded Continue to Grow in 2009; Indicators of Employment Outcomes Mixed [22 November 2010]

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf11305/

or

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf11305/nsf11305.pdf

[full-text, 10 pages]

[excerpt]

This InfoBrief uses data collected from the 2009 Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED) to report on trends in the numbers of individuals who earn research doctoral degrees from U.S. academic institutions. Postgraduation plans of new doctorate recipients are examined from 2004 to 2009, a period that includes the recent economic decline. The following key findings are described in detail in this report:

•49,562 research doctorates were awarded in 2009, up 1.6% over the 2008 total.

•Doctorates awarded in science and engineering (S&E) fields were up 1.9% over 2008, owing entirely to growth in numbers of female S&E doctorate recipients.

•The number of doctorates earned by U.S. citizens and permanent residents who are members of racial/ethnic minority groups continues to grow faster than the number earned by white recipients.

•The number of doctorate recipients with temporary visas was down 3.5% from 2008.

•The proportion of 2009 doctorate recipients with employment prospects in the coming year (gauged by definite commitments to a position) was slightly less than that reported in 2008 and about the same as that reported in 2007, the year before the advent of the recession.

•Among doctorate recipients reporting definite commitments, a growing proportion are taking postdoctoral (postdoc) positions; 2009 marked the largest single-year increase in the proportion of doctorate recipients taking postdoc positions during the 2004–09 period.

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Institute for Workplace Studies 
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