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Gilbreth completed a dissertation and attempted to obtain a doctorate from the University of California in 1911, but was not awarded the degree due to noncompliance with residency requirements for doctoral candidates ; this dissertation was later published as The Psychology of Management.

Instead, since her immediate family had relocated to New England by this time, she attended Brown University and earned a Ph. D in 1915, having written a second dissertation on efficient teaching methods called " Some Aspects of Eliminating Waste in Teaching ".

It was the first degree granted in industrial psychology.