1. Doctoral Completion & Attrition
September 2008

2. Attrition & Completion Graphs
All Students

14. Full Campus Study Attrition No difference between demographic groups.
GRE Verbal Scores positively related to attrition. No significant relationship found for GRE Quant or for GPA.
Students who attended a top tier BA school and those with a prior graduate degree are less likely to drop out.
Student faculty ratio is negatively related to dropout.
Programs with a tradition of publishing with a lone author have higher attrition rates.
Programs with a teaching requirement have higher drop out rates.

15. Full Campus Study Early v. Late Attrition
Among dropouts, students with a foreign language requirement are more likely to dropout late.
Programs with a tradition of sole authorship tend to produce students who drop out later.
Differential impact of GRE Verbal between students enrolling with and without a prior graduate degree.

16. GRE Verbal & Prior Graduate Degree

17. CGS Activities Exit Survey CGS Incidents System
10 Year Attrition and Completion Reports
By program
By broad field by Gender and Ethnic Counts
Detailed exit survey – 10 pages

18. Incidents Systems IT Problems 119 Reported Incidents to Date
Reported Reasons:
22% Family
22% Health
19% Financial
25% Lost Interest
Open Ended Comments
Subsequent Enrollment
Open Ended – Significant proportion of health reasons were mental health related
Subsequent enrollment – Mental health cases tended not to return. Temporary health issues tended to return. Temporary family issues (taking care of parent) tended to return. Permanent family (child birth or spouse moving away tended not to return.