The problems of graduate education

Graduate education -especially the doctorate- helps to perform researches and generate information, to support the scientific and technological progress and bring up highly qualified manpower considered the locomotive of development (scientists, university professors, researchers). In all developed and developing countries, despite the importance given to the graduate education, there are problems in this field. In this article the main problems of graduate education in different countries and in Turkey are discussed based on literature and observations. In this context problems related to researches performed in the field of graduate education in Turkey, resources allocated from the national income, internationalization, graduate student's mobility and the quality of the doctorate education were mentioned.