When are you too old for a PhD? - Chris Blattman.
Average actual salaries of school heads, by age group and by gender Annual average salaries (including bonuses and allowances) of school heads in public institutions, in equivalent USD converted using PPPs for private consumption.The average age of a PhD graduate is 33. Most PhD students must assist in teaching undergraduate classes and grade papers of undergraduates. The dropout rate for PhD students is 43 percent. The number of men holding a PhD is approximately 1,678,000, compared to 817,000 women.Which is the average age in which persons start their PhD? Is this age in some way related to the post PhD plans a person does? In my (European) experience I have 3 groups of people, with the relative distributions: (70% of the total) Those who started right after graduation (let's say when they were 24) without any job experience.
The educational level of American adults is on the rise as more college graduates go on to earn master’s, professional and doctoral degrees. Since 2000, the number of people age 25 and over whose highest degree was a master’s has doubled to 21 million. The number of doctoral degree holders has more than doubled to 4.5 million.Most universities in the USA simply award the standard PhD (or Ph.D.) as an academic doctorate. This qualification is equivalent to PhDs in other countries, though an American PhD graduate will normally have completed many additional classes and activities in addition to producing a dissertation.
The Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED) is an annual census conducted since 1957 of all individuals receiving a research doctorate from an accredited U.S. institution in a given academic year. The SED is sponsored by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) within the National Science Foundation (NSF) and by three other.
