Fig 1.
GRE Quantitative scores for STEM PhD students (women and men) in four state flagship universities.
*Significantly different from women, p<0.05; **p<0.001; ***p<0.0001.
Table 1.
PhD completion data for men and women in STEM PhD programs.
Table 2.
GRE Verbal (GRE V), GRE Quantitative (GRE Q) (mean ± SEM) scores for women and men who completed STEM PhD degrees or left without PhD degrees.
Table 3.
GRE Verbal (GRE V), GRE Quantitative (GRE Q) (mean ± SEM) scores for women and men who completed STEM PhD degrees or left during the first year.
Table 4.
Mean (± SEM), range of GRE V and GRE Q scores, percentile into which mean scores fell, range of score percentiles, and completion rates in quartiles of 767 women and 1038 men who enrolled in STEM doctoral programs in four state flagship universities.
Fig 2.
Relationships between GRE Quantitative quartile (Q) scores and PhD completion rates for men in four state flagship universities.
Q1 is the highest and Q4 the lowest quartile for the scores.
Fig 3.
GRE Verbal scores for men with GRE Quantitative scores in different quartiles (Q1-Q4) in four state flagship universities.
Table 5.
Time to degree related to GRE Verbal and Quantitative quartile scores for women and men in a group of 1805 U.S. STEM doctoral students (citizens or permanent residents) from four state flagship institutions.
Table 6.
GRE V and Q scores (Mean ± SEM) for women and men in engineering or non-engineering STEM fields.
Table 7.
GRE Verbal (GRE V), GRE Quantitative (GRE Q) scores (mean ± SEM) for women and men who completed engineering PhD degrees or left without PhD degrees.
Fig 4.
Relationships between rated of engineering and non-engineering STEM PhD completion and GRE Q score quartile (Q1 highest quartile) for men.
Ranges and means (±SEM) of GRE Q quartiles for male engineering students were: Q1 = 780–800, mean = 792.8±0.7; Q2 = 750–770, mean = 759.8±0.8; Q3 = 710–740, mean = 725.2±1.0; Q4 = 390–700, mean = 654.4±3.9. Those for male non-engineering students were: Q1 = 780–800, mean = 792.7±0.5; Q2 = 730–770, mean = 750.3±0.9; Q3 = 670–720, mean = 698.0±1.1; Q4 = 200–660, mean = 597.0±3.8. ***Significantly different from completion rates of those in the higher quartile; p<0.0001 (Chi-Squared test).