costs and benefits Financial support for graduate students Not too long ago I was quoted in a US News article on financial aid for graduate students. What I basically tried to explain to their education reporter, Farren Powell, is that the
costs and benefits Congress plans to raise taxes on graduate students There are basically two kinds of graduate students. One type pays tuition. The second is someone for whom tuition is waived, in full or part. The new tax law proposed by congressional Republicans
Analysis 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
Analysis 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
costs and benefits Getting a PhD is still a good idea, despite what you have heard For those considering joining the ranks of people who hold research doctorates there are two recent, and fundamentally negative, articles you should read. One focuses on the low probabilities of landing a job
costs and benefits Clinton's Free College Tuition Proposal Would Cost $65 Billion US Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has just proposed a free college tuition plan. Numbers on the cost of the proposal have not come with the announcement. But they are easy to estimate. I’
costs and benefits Recessions Drive Rising Tuition and Privatization of Public Universities [](https://res.cloudinary.com/gsmv3/image/upload/v1527623858/effect-of-recession-on-net-tuition_srxmzv.png)from State Higher Education Executive
costs and benefits An Economic Analysis of Student Loans Here’s a well thought out piece on student loan policy by Susan Dynarski at Brookings. Bottom line: If we want to increase college-going by lowering its price, evidence shows that grants and
Analysis 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
Analysis 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
costs and benefits Choosing a Graduate Program After Multiple Offers With March upon us graduate program admissions committees have made their decisions and have sent out their first waves of acceptance letters. If you’ve been accepted by a program, congratulations! Chances are
costs and benefits Has Winter Arrived for Rising College Tuition Rates? I read in the morning newspaper that the University System of Georgia is freezing college tuition rates to current levels at its public universities statewide for the 2016-2017 academic year. The legislative session
costs and benefits Income and Employment After Graduate School I just ran across yet another blog post on the internets wrongly decrying graduate school as a poor value proposition. I won’t link to it because it is mostly an uninformed polemic.
Analysis 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 mind, the picture
Biomedical Science The MD-PhD Degree is a Million Dollar Award I’m still obsessing a bit over the cost of graduate education. Not the tuition price charged to students that most everybody else is obsessing over, but rather the cost to the university
costs and benefits The Causes Underlying the Student Loan Default Crisis [](https://res.cloudinary.com/gsmv3/image/upload/v1527624075/
costs and benefits Time to talk education and research spending now that college football is back https://plot.ly/~medtjm/252/ncaa-d1-public-universities-research-athletic-spending/ With September, students arrive back on campus, including the college football players. The college football season generates so much interest this time of year it is easy
academic fields Should I Go To Law School? Thinking about attending law school? Law school application and enrollment rates have been dropping for several years. A growing conventional wisdom has been that a law degree doesn’t have the value proposition
benefits Mizzou Graduate Students Rise To Protest Lack of Institutional Support You may not have read about the graduate student unrest that erupted at Mizzou recently. But you should be aware that it could have occurred on the campus of virtually any other research
costs and benefits Are Research Groups Run Like Factories? Here’s an interesting commentary about the steady evolution of university research groups into larger team-like structures and how this impacts scientific career paths. This is good reading for anybody considering a research
costs and benefits Universities Spend $80,000 to Produce One Graduate Degree https://plot.ly/~tj.murphy/36/a-universitys-cost-of-producing-one-graduate-degree/ The cost of a university education is always a big topic. Most of the discussion focuses upon the cost to students. To look at the other
costs and benefits You Will Probably Earn More with a Graduate Degree When taking Economics 101 you might be lucky to have a professor who, on the first day of the semester, forces you to think about the economic value of a college degree. The
costs and benefits Where Knowledge is Produced [](https://res.cloudinary.com/gsmv3/image/upload/v1527624335/US-Knowledge-Production_dxykdc.png "Research PhD Awards
costs and benefits Bill Targets Wasteful Spending On For-Profit Universities In Senate hearings, Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) argued that congress is failing to provide needed oversight for $32 billion in taxpayer money “squandered” by companies that run for-profit universities. “So, student comes in,
costs and benefits Graduate School: Education, Not Job Training We’re noticing a significant uptick lately of rendering of the garb over the diminishing value of a graduate education. The negative view, beginning here, pivots largely around the argument that grad school
