Identifying, prioritizing and ranking of factors influencing the PhD milestones’ completion delays

The research oriented manpower is instrumental in the growth of economies. Unfortunately, the growth of doctoral research community is not keeping pace with the growing research requirements of India. “Time” to complete the milestones during the doctoral tenure is considered as an important constraint in doctoral degree completion. The present study mainly focus on this ‘time’ factor to complete the milestones in a doctoral life cycle. Secondary...