Doctoral Education: Global Perspectives

Abstract

Doctoral education worldwide is characterized by parallel trends toward diversity and, at the same time, toward unification. There is no such thing as a standard doctoral education model. The landscape of doctoral education across the world is quite diverse and there is a considerable rise in its variations and flexibility. How-ever, doctoral education has be-come a global market with flows of international students, faculty, and graduates who create a de-mand for unification of standards and benchmarking. Doctoral education worldwide is characterized by parallel trends toward diversity and, at the same time, toward unification.