As the deadlines for Ph.D. applications draw near, the concern and panic of doctoral program coordinators like me are beginning to grow. The concern is over the number of qualified applications our programs will receive. The panic is that we will once again be scrambling to fill next year’s cohort on April 15, the Council of Graduate Schools deadline for acceptance.
Although this summer’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action has garnered most of the attention regarding graduate school applications, another pressing concern facing American business schools is the decrease in qualified applications to Ph.D. programs, particularly from students in the United States.
