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The United States has been a leader in offering research-based doctoral degrees for many years. According to data from Falkenheim and Fiegener (2008), 48,079 doctoral degrees were awarded by institutions of higher education in the United States in 2007. Every year, students from all over the world enter the United States to pursue doctoral degrees in universities across the country. The fact that it takes students an average of 7.5 years (Hoffer and Welch, 2006) to graduate from the time they register in doctoral programs does not seem to be a major deterrent in pursuing such degrees.
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Thirunarayanan, M.O. (2011). Four Priorities for Doctoral Programs in Small Colleges/Universities. In: Pérez, D.M.C., Fain, S.M., Slater, J.J. (eds) Higher Education and Human Capital. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-418-8_5
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