The status of national and health administration doctoral education: issues for the 21st century

Doctoral education is gaining increasing attention as new programs proliferate and enrollment grows. Presently there is no standardization of degrees programs, limited aggregated information about health administration education doctoral programs, and an absence of national policy. The general, doctoral education literature presents a variety of issues and challenges for doctoral health administration education including data trends, supply and demand for doctoral graduates, credential inflation, attrition and degree completion, organizational efforts to improve doctoral education, and strategies for the future. Following the literature review, survey results for a sub-sample of AUPHA affiliated doctoral programs are presented along with related implications.