From an economic perspective, the arrival of international students on Canadian campuses can represent a flow of highly skilled talent that can help ease domestic skills shortages not filled by the native-born population. A recent study notes that of the cohort of international students who came to Canada to study during the 1990s and early 2000s,…

This is the first article that compares terminal master's degree programs in economics from universities that have a PhD program in economics with those that do not offer PhD programs in economics. The authors compare these differences based on surveys in 2002 and 2012. They examine differences in general program characteristics, department…

The Post-9/11 GI Bill took effect on August 1, 2009, increasing the education benefits available to military service members who served after September 10, 2001. A previous National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) study used national data collected in 2007-08 to profile military undergraduate and graduate students who received benefits…

This article presents a list of the top Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) degree producers in the U.S. This list is broken down into seven categories: (1) Total Minority Research/Scholarship and Other Doctoral: Mathematics and Statistics; (2) Total Minority Bachelors: Biological and Biomedical Sciences; (3) Total Minority…

The purpose of this study was to determine the most suitable ICT-based education and define the most suitable e-content creation tools for quantitative courses in the IT-management Masters program. ICT-based tools and technologies are divided in to three categories: the creation of e-content, the offering of e-content, and access to e-content. In…

Analysis of publication records of 607 North American library and information science (LIS) school faculty shows that publication productivity is higher in LIS schools with a Ph.D. program than in those without; Carnegie Research Universities I schools publish more; and Ph.D. institutions have a greater output of refereed articles than master's…

Presents 1997-98 rankings of postsecondary institutions granting the most minority-student graduate and professional degrees. Institutions granting the most master's and doctoral degrees are listed for all disciplines and discipline groups; those granting the most first professional and medical degrees are listed separately. Within listings, data…

Data pertaining to students, faculty, programs, finances, and facilities of Madison College are presented for the purpose of providing a reference that will be useful to the college community and other interested persons. Thirty-eight statistical tables are presented including: comparison of resident enrollment, 1956-57 through 1975-76;…