There’s not much good to find in a destructive pandemic, but here’s one potentially positive outcome: Covid-19 may bring graduate schools to a long-needed reckoning with the dissertation requirement.

At my university, we offer a master’s degree in criminology and a criminal justice program with two options for courses of study, or tracks. The first track requires students to take a series of ...

These recommendations are aimed primarily to my students from the at the University of Helsinki, but many points are likely to apply to related programmes and other institutions. In fact, most of this ...

Students pursuing a master’s degree leading to certification in speech pathology may choose to do a master’s thesis. Students who pursue a thesis are: 1) not required to complete the comprehensive ...