How many thousands of PhD candidates do you personally know where you can actually type “well, I only know one person like that so you’re uninformed”?
Mate, you’re on the Internet. Go to your search engine of choice, search for “are most US stem phds fully funded” and behold! Page after page confirming your apparently vast anecdotal knowledge is completely wrong.
I did search this for the largest institution in my state before I made the comment. PhD’s are more expensive there per credit hour than masters degrees. The only thing I have found searching what you’ve indicated is scholarships or GAs. Not how much tuition actually costs.
Yes, you found the cost per credit hour that is paid to the university by the supporting financial source. The university makes money from tuition while making additional money from the work completed by students and faculty for the research funding. They double dip.
Teaching and research assistantships will also “waive” tuition fees and provide a poverty level stipend, allowing the university to brag about its charity while utilizing low wage grad students to replace positions formerly held by tenure track professors, who are already increasingly displaced by adjunct professors.
This is not true. In STEM in the US nearly all PhD candidates are paid a stipend and tuition.
I only know one person who even was a graduate assistant while getting a PhD so this is just uninformed at best.
How many thousands of PhD candidates do you personally know where you can actually type “well, I only know one person like that so you’re uninformed”?
Mate, you’re on the Internet. Go to your search engine of choice, search for “are most US stem phds fully funded” and behold! Page after page confirming your apparently vast anecdotal knowledge is completely wrong.
I did search this for the largest institution in my state before I made the comment. PhD’s are more expensive there per credit hour than masters degrees. The only thing I have found searching what you’ve indicated is scholarships or GAs. Not how much tuition actually costs.
Yes, you found the cost per credit hour that is paid to the university by the supporting financial source. The university makes money from tuition while making additional money from the work completed by students and faculty for the research funding. They double dip.
Teaching and research assistantships will also “waive” tuition fees and provide a poverty level stipend, allowing the university to brag about its charity while utilizing low wage grad students to replace positions formerly held by tenure track professors, who are already increasingly displaced by adjunct professors.
lol. I got a chuckle out of this. Ty.
My pleasure. They seem well intentioned but haven’t the slightest idea what they’re talking about.