...Marina Garcia-Morante; Crista Weise; Laura Karina Diaz Villalba; Montserrat Castelló Purpose This study aims to critically assesses how Spanish PhD holders working outside academia perceive and value their past PhD training experiences within academic PhD programs, addressing the growing need...

... a literature review of studies on qualifying exams and completed an external evaluation of peer institutions’ and internal institutional qualifying exam requirements to inform our discussion of qualifying exams practices in PhD training at a research-intensive US institutions. Findings This study...