Highlights:
The Graduate School’s Fall 2002 entering class was the
second largest in history, with 626 students (426 Ph.D.
candidates). (The 7,825 applicants this year was the
largest number ever.) The quality of the entering class,
measured by both standardized scores and the number of
James B. Duke Fellows, also kept pace with last year’s
record, as has the diversity of the student body, with 43
U.S. minority students (17 of whom won competitive fellowship
awards). Multi-year statistics
on median GRE scores, undergraduate
grade-point averages, time to degree, attrition rates and job
placement of Duke graduates are available from the Graduate School.
The Graduate School continued its leadership role in several
national initiatives, including Dean Lew Siegel’s appointments
to the Boards of the
Council of Graduate School (chair-elect)
and the Graduate Record Examination and Dean Leigh DeNeef’s
position as co-chair of the Association of American Universities
Graduate Program Data Sharing Project.
The Graduate School has been an active participant in the
Woodrow Wilson Responsive
Ph.D. Project and the Carnegie
Initiative on the Doctorate, with five of its programs
(Chemistry,
English,
Mathematics,
History and
Psychological and Brain Sciences)
winning initial Carnegie grants to enhance their doctoral training programs.
Special programs and achievements:
