Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States

Lyle V. Jones, Gardner Lindzey, and Porter E. Coggeshall, Editors; Committee on an Assessment of Quality-Related Characteristics of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States

• 1 Front Matter; 2 I. Origins of Study and Selection of Programs; 3 II. Methodology; 4 III. Chemical Engineering Programs; 5 IV. Civil Engineering Programs; 6 V. Electrical Engineering Programs; 7 VI. Mechanical Engineering Programs; 8 VII. Summary and Discussion; 9 Minority Statement; 10 Appendix A: Letter to Institutional Coordinators and Accompanying Survey Form (Measures 01-03); 11 Appendix B: Survey of Earned Doctorates (Measures 04-07); 12 Appendix C: Letter to Evaluators and Specimen of the Instrument Used in the Reputational Survey (Measures 08-11); 13 Appendix D: The ARL Library Index (Measure 12); 14 Appendix E: Data on Faculty Research Support and R&D Expenditures (Measures 13 and 14); 15 Appendix F: Data on Publication Records (Measures 15 and 16); 16 Appendix G: Conference on the Assessment of Quality of Graduate Education Programs--Participants and Summary; 17 Appendix H: Planning Committee for the Study of the Quality of Research-Doctorate Programs; 18 Appendix I: Region and State Codes for the United States and Possessions