| List of Figures | |
| List of Tables | |
| Preface | |
| Ch. 1 | Introduction and Principal Findings | 1 |
| Part One: Trends in Graduate Education | |
| Ch. 2 | Recipients of Doctorates | 19 |
| Ch. 3 | The BA-PhD Nexus | 41 |
| Ch. 4 | Graduate Programs: The Dual Questions of Quality and Scale | 56 |
| Ch. 5 | The Evolution of Selected Tier I Programs in the EHP Fields | 80 |
| Pt. 2 | Factors Affecting Outcomes | |
| Ch. 6 | Completion Rates and Time-to-Degree: Concepts and General Patterns | 105 |
| Ch. 7 | Fields of Study | 123 |
| Ch. 8 | Scale of Graduate Program | 142 |
| Ch. 9 | Student-Year Cost and Its Components | 163 |
| Pt. 3 | Policies and Program Design | |
| Ch. 10 | Financial Support for Graduate Students | 177 |
| Ch. 11 | National Fellowship Programs | 196 |
| Ch. 12 | Requirements and Program Content | 229 |
| Ch. 13 | Program Design, Oversight, and "Culture" | 250 |
| Ch. 14 | Recommendations | 268 |
| Appendixes | |
| Appendix The Ten-University Data Set | 290 |
| Appendix B The National Fellowship Data Set | 308 |
| Appendix C Survey of Mellon Fellows in the Humanities | 322 |
| Appendix D Measuring Time to the Doctorate | 347 |
| Appendix E Time-to-Degree and Faculty Promotion | 360 |
| Appendix F Theory and Its Reverberations | 368 |
| Appendix G Additional Tables | 378 |
| Definitions of Frequently Used Terms | 426 |
| References Cited | 428 |
| Index | 437 |
