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Appendix E: Estimating the Path of Master's Degree Recipients in the Biological Sciences
Pages 95-96

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... However, we know from National Science Foundation data that only about 55%, or 3,700, of master's degree holders in the biological sciences earn no further degrees. This suggests that of the 4,400 who earned a master's degree and no doctorate, about 700 earned some other advanced degree.
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... Other Ph.D.s in the biological sciences had a time-to-degree of 6.7 years, and 40.3 percent had master's degrees. Number of master's degrees in the biological sciences is from the National Center for Education Statistics, Digest of Education Statistics 2006, Table 255, http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d06/tables/ dt06_255.asp (accessed October 26, 2007)
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