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González-Sauri, Mario; Rossello, Giulia – Research in Higher Education, 2023
This paper investigates the effect of university prestige stratification on scholars' career achievements. We focus on 766 STEM PhD graduates hired by Mexican universities between 1992 and 2016. We rank university according to their prestige based on the pairwise assessment of quality contained in the PhD hiring networks. Further, we use a…
Descriptors: Universities, Reputation, Career Development, Graduate Students
Shuoyang Meng; Wenqin Shen – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2024
The Chinese government has been actively recruiting foreign-trained Chinese scholars to return to China since the Chinese brain drain began. Japan is among the most popular destinations for Chinese scholars seeking to receive doctoral training. This study explores the factors contributing to the stratification of Japanese-trained Chinese PhDs'…
Descriptors: Asians, Foreign Students, Doctoral Programs, Study Abroad
Li, Jian; Xue, Eryong – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022
The purpose of this study is to characterize the graduate education development for creating world-class universities from the insight of the doctoral education in China. A systematic review is applied to examine the doctoral education development in contemporary China. The findings argue that there are tremendous challenges in China's current…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Program Development, Educational Development, Doctoral Programs
Kundu, Arnab; Kaibarta, Mrityunjoy; Mukherjee, Subhadip – International Journal of Comparative Education and Development, 2022
Purpose: It is unfortunate yet true that in India, research starts and ends with a Ph.D. The steady decline in the quality of doctoral research has been an articulated concern among Indian academics at a time when research and innovation should be a priority. One of the feasible ways of resurrecting or reconstructing Indian research is to open up…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Reputation, Institutional Characteristics, Educational Quality
Gerhards, Jürgen; Hans, Silke; Drewski, Daniel – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2018
The global academic system is hierarchically structured between a center, a semi-periphery and a periphery. We analyze to what extent the position of a country and a university within this hierarchy of scientific reputation shapes doctoral students' chances of international mobility. We conducted an exploratory experimental study using fake…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Higher Education, Vertical Organization, Reputation
Dai, Kun; Hu, Yating; Li, Xiaoyuan; Oladipo, Oluwasegun – Higher Education Research and Development, 2023
With the growing trend of globalisation and the internationalisation of higher education, China actively recruits more international students to study at Chinese universities. Notably, international doctoral students are a significant cohort in this trend. Although many studies have investigated international students' learning experiences in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Students, Foreign Students, Doctoral Programs
Özkan, Metin – Educational Research and Reviews, 2016
The aim of this research is to determine classification in which the level of accuracy in Turkish universities rankings is detected by the international assessments according to the independent variables PhD students ratio, the number of students per faculty member and the article scores. The data of research were obtained from University Ranking…
Descriptors: Universities, Reputation, Classification, Foreign Countries
Yang, Yibo; Volet, Simone; Mansfield, Caroline – Educational Studies, 2018
Despite China's recent remarkable performance in high-quality research, the number of students going abroad to pursue doctoral degrees in STEM fields has been rising rapidly. This study investigates the motivations of Chinese international doctoral students (CIDS) in STEM fields for undertaking a PhD abroad, and the external factors influencing…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Study Abroad, Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs
Bloch, Roland; Mitterle, Alexander – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
This article seeks to shed light on current dynamics of stratification in changing higher education and proposes an analytical perspective to account for these dynamics based on Martin Trow's work on "the analysis of status." In research on higher education, the term "stratification" is generally understood as a metaphor that…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Administrative Organization, Government School Relationship
Elbeck, Matt; Vander Schee, Brian A. – Journal of Marketing Education, 2014
This study benchmarks marketing doctoral programs worldwide in five popular subareas by faculty and institutional scholarly impact. A multi-item approach identifies a collection of top-tier scholarly journals for each subarea, while citation data over the decade 2003 to 2012 identify high scholarly impact marketing faculty by subarea used to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Marketing, Doctoral Programs, Educational Administration
Alperin, Juan Pablo – Quality in Higher Education, 2013
The continued importance of university rankings has only served to fuel the growth of the "world-class" university movement. There is a growing impression that, in a globalised and interconnected world, no country can do without a world-class university. No country, that is, except Brazil. While Brazil has the resources necessary to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Quality Control, Higher Education
Cavanaugh, Gesulla – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this study was first to determine factors associated with intellectual reputation, specifically among selected biomedical departments worldwide within the university setting. Second, the study aimed to examine intellectual reputation in relationship to doctoral graduates' productivity in the biomedical sciences and in relationship…
Descriptors: Reputation, Biomedicine, Doctoral Programs, Productivity
Evans, Linda – Professional Development in Education, 2010
Since 2003, doctoral education has become a key feature within the remit of the Bologna Process. Perceived as a crucial link between the European Higher Education Area and the European Research Area, it is perceived as the cornerstone upon which will be built Europe's future world-class research excellence. Yet consideration of how European…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Academic Degrees, National Standards
Lovat, Terence; Holbrook, Allyson; Bourke, Sid – Educational Research Review, 2008
The article draws on findings from the "PhD Examination Project" at the SORTI Research Centre of The University of Newcastle, Australia. It focuses on an analysis of the roles of examiner and supervisor, in relation to the candidate, as seen through the lens of Habermas's "Ways of Knowing" theory. On the basis of this, it has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Degrees, Tests, Reputation
Lumadi, Mutendwahothe Walter – College Teaching Methods & Styles Journal, 2008
This article attempts to clarify the role of supervisors in guiding postgraduate research students and the challenges and complexities encountered in the process of supervision. In the analysis and interpretation of data, it became evident that supervision of postgraduate research students varies enormously, depending on the subject area, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Doctoral Programs
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