Harvard University has implemented a new approach to make the process of earning a Ph.D. quicker. Two years ago the school decided to establish a plan that dictates that departments will lose one doctoral admissions slot for every five grad students who are in the eighth year or higher of a Ph.D. program. The new plan also included full financing for a year of dissertation work, as well as a rule dictating that students working on dissertations are not allowed to be assigned or to accept teaching positions.

The departments were given 18 months before the new approach was put into place so that professors could help get students finished with their Ph.D.s.

In 2005, 16 of the 24 humanities and social sciences departments providing Ph.D.s faced losing 33 admissions spots. In 2006, just 14 departments were in danger of losing a total of 23 admissions slots. Since the beginning of the new approach two years ago, humanities Ph.D.s grew from 71 to 99, while special sciences Ph.D.s grew from 95 to 110.

In the past five years, ninth-year doctoral students decreased from 8.5 percent to 4.5 percent. Now that the new Ph.D. approach has been in effect for a few years, Harvard may be approaching the end of the 10-year humanities Ph.D. path.

–Sara Elizabeth

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