With typical graduate students in the humanities needing nearly a decade to complete their doctorates, more universities are introducing policies to enable them to finish their degrees in fewer years. But as the data show, the median time to finish a Ph.D. in the humanities, as well as in some other disciplines, has declined over the last 25 years.
* Includes agricultural sciences and natural resources; biological and biomedical sciences; and health sciences.
** Includes mathematics and computer and information sciences.
*** Includes psychology.