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Graduate Students

Attention to college costs, enrollment and debt is usually focused on undergraduates. But graduate students have become a vital source of revenue for universities, which have raised their tuition faster than for undergrads and added new fees. Graduate students now represent 40 percent of student debt — and are starting to fight back.

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STUDENT VOICE: Universities overlook graduate students’ mental health

Avatar photo by Aya Waller-Bey April 29, 2019April 8, 2021
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Universities increasingly turn to graduate programs to balance their books

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus April 23, 2019April 8, 2021
Josh Caouette, a graduate student at Simmons College, crams for a test. Caouette is resigned to the cost of his degree. “If it’s helping others, that’s fine by me. I mean, I have to do it either way.”
Posted inGraduate Students, Higher Education, News, Solutions, Universities, Inc.

In-demand graduate programs become a cash cow for colleges in financial distress

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus September 19, 2017April 8, 2021
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Universities cut services for a big group of their students: those over 25

by Matt Krupnick December 1, 2016April 8, 2021
Students walk across campus at the University of Vermont on Monday, April 30, 2012 in Burlington, Vt.
Posted inGraduate Students, Higher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

How an oversupply of PhDs could threaten American science

by Brenda Iasevoli March 2, 2015April 8, 2021
Alan Alda meets with students at Cornell University. The actor and director, who once hosted a television science program, has become an advocate for helping academics communicate more clearly with the public. Photo: Lindsay France/Cornell University Photography
Posted inGraduate Students, Higher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

Needing public support, academics try to make their work more clear

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus January 8, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inCalifornia, Graduate Students, Higher Education, News, The West

Student subsidies of classmates’ tuition add to anger over rising college costs

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus August 29, 2012October 21, 2020

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