{"id":9097,"date":"2013-04-18T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerusaleminstitute.org.il\/doctor-in-the-house\/"},"modified":"2019-06-18T12:16:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T09:16:06","slug":"doctor-in-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerusaleminstitute.org.il\/en\/blog\/doctor-in-the-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor in the house"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Students enrolled in higher education in Israel follow one of four tracks: studies towards a certificate or diploma, bachelor\u2019s degree studies, master\u2019s degree studies, or studies towards a doctorate (PhD). Students pursuing a doctorate (doctoral students) write a doctoral thesis, upon conclusion of which they receive the title of \u201cdoctor.\u201d\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the 2011-2012 academic year there were 10,600 doctoral students in Israel, constituting 4.1% of the population of students in the country for this year. Across the years one can see an increase in the number of doctoral students in Israel: in 2011-2012 they numbered 1.6 times more than they had in 1999-2000, and 2.8 times more than in 1989-1990. At the same time, however, the data indicate that the percentage of doctoral students among all students has remained relatively consistent over the years, at 4-5%.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In terms of gender, the ratio of women among doctoral students during 2011-2012 was 52%. This figure is lower than the percentage of women among master\u2019s degree students (60%) or bachelor\u2019s degree students (56%) for the same year. We observe a significant increase over the years in the percentage of women among doctoral candidates in Israel \u2013 from 31% during the 1980s to 39% during the 1990s and 50% during the first decade of the 2000s.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The distribution of students by university indicates that the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has the largest number of doctoral students. Data for 2009-2010 indicate that 25% of doctoral students were enrolled at the Hebrew University, 20% at Tel Aviv University, 17% at Bar-Ilan University, 11% at Ben-Gurion University, 10% at Haifa University, and the remainder at the Technion and Weizmann Institute of Science. At the same time, the data also indicate a decrease in the ratio of Hebrew University students among doctoral degree recipients compared to previous decades \u2013 from 37% in the 1980s to 30% during the 1990s and 25% the following decade.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The most popular field of study among doctoral students in Israel (during 2011-2012) was the natural sciences and mathematics (38% of students), followed by the humanities (25%) and social sciences (14%). Among doctoral students at the Hebrew University (according to 2009-2010 data), the most popular fields of study were the biological sciences (24%), social sciences (13%), agriculture (11%), and physical sciences (11%).\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Source: Analysis of data from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.cbs.gov.il\/reader\/cw_usr_view_Folder?ID=141\">Central Bureau of Statistics<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students enrolled in higher education in Israel follow one of four tracks: studies towards a certificate or diploma, bachelor\u2019s degree studies, master\u2019s degree studies, or studies towards a doctorate (PhD). Students pursuing a doctorate (doctoral students) write a doctoral thesis, upon conclusion of which they receive the title of \u201cdoctor.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0 During the 2011-2012 academic&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-container\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jerusaleminstitute.org.il\/en\/blog\/doctor-in-the-house\/\" class=\"button is-primary is-small is-round has-round-arrow\">Continue reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerusaleminstitute.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerusaleminstitute.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerusaleminstitute.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerusaleminstitute.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerusaleminstitute.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9097"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jerusaleminstitute.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10357,"href":"https:\/\/jerusaleminstitute.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9097\/revisions\/10357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerusaleminstitute.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerusaleminstitute.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerusaleminstitute.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}