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6 Neuroscience and Neurobiology: Combining Data from the Program and Student Surveys
Pages 37-40

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... The student survey also asked students to reflect on their career objectives when they entered graduate school and when they took the survey, which was after admission to candidacy. At program entry, more than 80 percent of neuroscience and neurobiology students recalled an 1 Most of the data on students in neuroscience and neurobiology comes from the survey of doctoral students.
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... This is an area that merits continued data collection for a more complete understanding of career outcomes in the biomedical science fields. COMPLETION RATES AND TIME TO DEGREE The percentage of neuroscience and neurobiology students completing programs within 6 years exhibited an interquartile range of 36 percent to 57 percent with a median of 53 percent2.
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... In neuroscience and neurobiology, there were not large correlations between the numbers of nonAsian minority faculty and students, although the panel did find nontrivial positive correlations between the number of underrepresented minority faculty and underrepresented minority students in six fields: biochemistry, biophysics, and structural biology; immunology and infectious disease; microbiology; nutrition; pharmacology, toxicology, and environmental health; and physiology (see Table 3-3)
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