The center in 2018 sent out 29,702 questionnaires and received 4,897 valid replies, center associate researcher Lo Ai-yen (羅愛雁) said. A total of 75.7 percent of respondents said that it was rewarding to earn a doctoral degree. By comparison, 62.8 percent of holders of a life sciences doctorate and 70.5 percent of those with a natural sciences doctorate considered their degrees beneficial, the lowest two among 12 disciplines, it found. In terms of gender, 78.4 percent of female respondents said that their doctorates were beneficial, greater than the 74.6 percent of male respondents. People who obtained doctorates from foreign universities also had greater satisfaction that those who received them from domestic institutions, it showed.

Source: Taipei Times March 03, 2020 15:56 UTC