The study, reported in this week's issue of Eos, the AGU newspaper, covered 180 Earth and space science Ph.D. recipients who received degrees from U.S. universities in 2003. The survey asks graduates about their education and employment, their efforts to find their first job, and their experiences in graduate school.
Key results from the 2003 report include:
The survey was conducted by the Statistical Research Center of the American Institute of Physics. The AGU/AGI report draws on results from eight prior AGU/AGI surveys of Ph.D. classes (1996-2003), as well as data from the National Science Foundation Survey of Earned Doctorates.
The full 2003 report is available at http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/cpst/2003PhDSurvey.pdf