"The quality of research-doctorate programs at U.S. universities can be credited in many cases for the cultural and technological development of our society. Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States reports the results of an extensive study of 3,634 programs at 274 institutions in 41 disciplines within the broad fields of Arts and Humanities, Biological Sciences, Engineering, Physical Sciences and Mathematics, and Social and Behavioral Sciences. This book updates and expands upon the widely used An Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States, published in 1982. In addition to providing current data on measures used in the earlier study and introducing other measures of research-doctorate programs, the book examines changes in size, quality, and structure of the nearly 2,000 programs participating in both studies. Quantitative data on research grants, publications, citations, awards and honors, and the characteristics of program graduates are reported, along with the results of the National Survey of Graduate Faculty, which yielded ratings of the scholarly quality of program faculty and the effectiveness of programs in education research scholars/scientists."--BOOK JACKET.