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Doctoral Degree Level
At the doctoral level, degree production is highly concentrated: 150 research I, research II, and doctorate-granting I universities produce nearly 90 percent of all S& E doctorates, and receive 90 percent of all academic R& D funding (President's Council
of Advisors on Science and Technology 1992). Collectively, these universities are three times the size they were 30 years ago in terms of enrollment and degree production and number of faculty and research staff. Due to research budget
constraints, however, these research-intensive institutions are not expected to grow as they did in the 1960s and again in the 1980s. It has thus been postulated that only a very small fraction of current and future doctoral recipients in science and
engineering can aspire to careers in academic research and teaching in research universities (Goodstein 1993).
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