The mentor in graduate education

The study examined the presence of mentors in and some of their effects on doctoral student education. It was hypothesised that males would be mentored at a significantly higher rate than females; and that a positive overall evaluation of one's graduate experiences at the doctoral level would be positively related to having a mentor. Data were gathered using a survey questionnaire completed by doctoral students. No evidence was found that males are more likely to be mentored than females. It is clear that doctoral students who had experienced a close working relationship with a faculty member had a fuller education than their counterparts who had not.