RT Article
T1 Student Success and Failure in a Graduate Criminology/Criminal Justice Program
JF American journal of criminal justice
VO 33
IS 1
SP 113
OP 129
A1 Lightfoot, Robert C.
A1 Doerner, William G.
A2 Doerner, William G.
LA English
YR 2008
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764271890
AB Despite the burdens that students and institutions assume when underwriting educational careers, very little is known about completion rates, risk factors, and successful strategies of criminology/criminal justice (CCJ) graduate programs. Consequently, the present study tracks 287 master’s and 70 doctoral students who entered the Florida State University CCJ program during the 1991–2000 academic years. Almost two-thirds of this cohort earned an advanced degree. Younger students with higher GRE scores were more likely to complete the master’s program. Successful doctoral degree recipients tended to have lower GRE scores, be non-White, and earn their master’s degrees in-house. In terms of time-to-degree, it took over two years to earn an M.A. and slightly more than six years to negotiate the Ph.D. Implications are explored for the program, the university, and the discipline.
K1 Graduate Education
K1 Time-to-degree
K1 Attrition
DO 10.1007/s12103-007-9029-4