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Chapter 6: Education in Biology
Pages 357-359

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From page 357...
... It continues through the approximately 2.5 million high school students enrolled in formal biology courses each year, and perhaps 200,000 who receive some formal exposure to the life sciences in college. The next level comprises the 25,000 students who, each year, complete baccalaureate training with concentration in one of the life sciences.
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From page 358...
... Almost all the 3,500 Ph.D.'s earned annually in the life sciences are awarded by 145 institutions; but a much larger number train students at the master's and baccalaureate levels, and these play a critical role in forming the intellectual backgrounds and experimental habits of many potential research workers. We cannot be certain of how many of the 25,000 college majors in the life sciences graduated annually enter upon Ph.D.
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From page 359...
... in the basic medical sciences have only six to eight faculty members; this is often true also of departments in schools of liberal arts or agriculture in which the life sciences are relatively fragmented into departments of genetics, microbiology, wildlife management, and so on. The type of training received by doctoral students in such departments is inevitably strikingly different from that provided in coherent departments of biology.
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