PhDs in China Increased Five-fold over Past Ten Years

By China Youth Online
Published: 2010-09-14

At the beginning of August, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Professor Zhou Guangli published the shocking results of his survey on the quality of China’s PhDs. 46% of PhD advisors have more than 7 PhD advisees, and one professor surveyed even had 47. 13% of PhD students only meet with their advisor once a month and 3% have not met with their advisor at all. In 2008 China became the country with the highest number of PhD students.

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