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Making the Most of Your Graduate School Journey: How to Choose The Right Program After You've Been Accepted

No one wants to make the wrong choice, right? Maybe not, but most people *don’tknow when they’re making the wrong choice.* Many grad school applicants don’t take this decision seriously enough, or realize how much will be affected by choosing the

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How many people go to graduate school and a few other questions

Here are a few snapshots of graduate school enrollment data I’ve been playing. All of this comes from 12 month (unique head count) enrollment data (IPEDs) and US Census population estimates by age. First, when it comes to grad school, the real college

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What the heck is going on at Harvard?

Two recent announcements from Harvard University have generated a lot of press. Both provide important insights into the overall state of graduate education everywhere. Announcement 1: Harvard’s Graduate College of Arts and Sciences is reducing the number of slots for new graduate students

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Research spending by universities is picking up the slack...for now

Most graduate schools are places where a lot of research happens, and with it research spending. It’s pretty interesting to poke around in the HERD data from time to time to take the temperature of the overall ecosystem. HERD is the National Science

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Top Places to Attend Graduate School Sorted by Congressional Districts

Several factors are weighed into deciding where to attend graduate school. The two biggest are academic specialty and place. With an election on the horizon I thought it would be interesting to come up with the top places to attend graduate school as indexed

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The Privatization of Public Universities

Maureen Downey, a reporter and editor at the Atlanta Journal Constitution with expertise in education policy, was kind enough to invite me to write an opinion piece for her blog. You can read it here. In essence, the argument is that as states fund

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Graduate School Enrollment is Higher in Private than in Public Universities and Colleges

Just a quick observation. Graduate school enrollment in public universities has been dropping since the early 90’s, while enrollment in private (not-profit) universities has been steadily rising. It is hard not to imaging a steal effect going on there, where the privates get

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Are We At Peak Master's Degree? Part 2

While the enrollment trouble at for-profit universities has been making all the news the past few years, graduate school enrollment has been on the decline at traditional non-profit universities, too. The numbers of Master’s degrees, but not doctorates, awarded in the past three

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Are We At Peak Master's Degree? Part 1

The declining levels of graduate school enrollment at non-profit US universities begs several questions. One is whether this is systemic problem or does it affect a specific graduate degree level? Since about 75% of all graduate awards each year are Master’s, declining Master’

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Hey, Non-Profit Graduate School Enrollment is Declining Too

I’ve been munging around a bit with graduate school enrollment and award data for US universities to get a sense of the overall trends and, at least in my

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