Open AccessCompletion Time Dynamics For Masters And Doctoral Studies At Makerere University
Author(s) -
Robert Wamala,
Joseph Oonyu
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
contemporary issues in education research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1941-756X
pISSN - 1940-5847
DOI - 10.19030/cier.v5i2.6946
Subject(s) - dynamics (music) , event data , medical education , doctoral studies , time management , event (particle physics) , higher education , psychology , medicine , pedagogy , political science , computer science , law , operating system , physics , quantum mechanics , social media
This paper examines the dynamics of completion time of masters studies and how such dynamics relate to those of doctoral studies at Makerere University, Uganda. The assessment is based on administrative data of 605 masters degree students at the University in the 2004 and 2005 enrollment cohorts. The total elapsed time from first enrollment to submission of final dissertation copy was adopted as a measure of completion time. A time-to-event approach in a Cox model was applied in the investigations. A median completion time of 3.8 years (range, 1.85.9) suggests a delayed completion of studies. The established associations, modeled by a range of candidate, candidature, and institutional variables including discipline area corroborate the results obtained by the analysis of doctoral completion time at the University. The findings suggest that masters completion dynamics mirror those of doctoral studies at the University.