Graduate School and the Job Market of the 1990s: A Survey of Young Geoscientists


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Table 4. What Respondents Would Have Done Differently in Graduate School Sample: 1990-1997 Ph.D. Recipients
  % Checking This ItemN
Would you have done anything differently?   58.1%   225
Different field or subfield    39.5%   89
Take more technical classes in other departments    36.4    82
Different advisor    20.4    46
Different institution    17.7    40
Take time off before entering graduate school    15.1    34
Different research project    13.7    31
Take more nonscience classes    13.3    30
Other    9.8    22
Take time off during graduate school    4.8    11
Note: Percentages under reasons reflect the proportion of those indicating that they had thought of leaving who selected this item.