Cerny notes that over the past 12 years, the overall PhD completion rate at Berkeley has increased from 50 to 60 percent. In part, he says, this is due to paring down graduate programs to a more practical size. Target graduate enrollments, and upper and lower limits, have changed considerably over the years as units have requested modifications, says Duggan. In other fields, mostly in the professional schools, there has been increasing demand. Some new programs have been introduced while others have been disestablished.
Dramatic art is a good example of both.
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