Basic vs. applied doctoral theses in nuclear engineering – Case study of theses completed in Slovenia

In view of many discussions on rethinking graduate education to better support the non-academic careers, we have reviewed the doctoral theses, completed within graduate studies of nuclear engineering at the Jozef Stefan Institute and the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) between 1993 and 2019. The theses are divided (in the present paper) in three groups: “basic”, “applied” and “application-oriented basic”.