Undergraduate GPA Predicts Biochemistry PhD Completion and Is Associated with Time to Degree.

ABSTRACT: There is interest in admission criteria that predict future success in biomedical graduate school programs, but identifying predictors of PhD attainment is inherently complex. In particular, high noncompletion rates of PhD programs have long been recognized as a major crisis. Here, we present a quantitative analysis of the PhD students enrolled in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Texas A&M University between 1980 and 2010. The input variables included sex, country of citizenship, undergraduate grade point average (GPA), and Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores (Verbal and Quantitative Reasoning). Only GPA was a significant predictor of PhD completion based on logistic regression. We also examined associations involving nonbinary measures of success (PhD duration, first

SUBMITTER: Mendoza-Sanchez I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9508927 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature