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Graduate survey: Uncertain futures

Nature volume 526, pages 597–600 (2015)Cite this article

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Graduate students dream of academia but are keeping their career options open, according to a 2015 Nature survey.

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Woolston, C. Graduate survey: Uncertain futures. Nature 526, 597–600 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nj7574-597a

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