A big spike in AI job searches has been noted in recent years. A coder in Rust and Golang can get an average salary boost of $29,480 — more than seven times the increase associated with a PhD, ...

In the Kenyan academic system, a Doctor refers to an individual who has earned a doctoral degree (PhD or equivalent) from a recognised university. This title signifies academic qualification based on ...

A 2014 NSF Survey of Earned Doctorates found that 95% of physical science students were paid to get their PhD. In an ever-growing society of college debt, obtaining an advanced degree in physical ...

Never mind getting a tenure-track job in academia. While a PhD-holder finding a good job is rare enough, it turns out that the salary prospects for academics is declining too. From the Boston Globe ...

Salaries for PhD students in the biological sciences fall well below the basic cost of living at almost every institution and department in the United States, according to crowdsourced data. Only a ...

A recent report by The New Indian Express highlighted that the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (IIIT-Delhi) has raised its PhD fellowship to 60,000 rupees per month, which ...

While postdocs are necessary for entry into tenure-track jobs, they do not enhance salaries in other job sectors over time. We used biennial longitudinal data from the 1981–2013 waves of the National ...

Every day for 20 years, PhD students would come into employment counselor Melanie Sinche’s office and ask the same question: Would their doctorate degrees actually contribute anything to the economy?