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Most PhD students don't pay tuition out of pocket, but someone usually pays tuition on their behalf. For example, my first two years of grad school were covere
by mattkrause 9y ago
Most PhD students don't pay tuition out of pocket, but someone usually pays tuition on their behalf.
For example, my first two years of grad school were covered by an institutional training grant, which paid for my tuition, stipend, and books. The next year was paid for by private fellowship (thanks, Pfizer), which covered pretty much the same things--and a very large coffee mug that I still haven. Subsequent years were paid for by a combination of other training grants to the university and research grants to my advisor.
This adds up to some decent money for the university, especially since PhD students typically take only a handful of classes–and these seminars are fairly cheap to put on.
- geebee 9y agoNow that makes sense - PhD students may be paid out of grants that come from a source other than the university itself or the student. So that would be a source of income lost.
- mattkrause 9y ago"may" is even a bit soft: I would bet that >75% of biomed PhD students are funded by some sort of external source. My impression is that the humanities are a bit different: grad students are funded by the university, but also expected to do more TAing (etc).
- Fomite 9y agoI'd be comfortable betting by the time they hit their dissertation, which is where this will really be a problem, that number is >90%.
- geebee 9y agoDo you think the grant could go directly to fund research, with the university then funding a grad student with the grant money as a condition of how the grant is used? Or does it have to go through the grad student as a reportable tuition waiver? I certainly do agree this sounds like a much more complicated problem than a line item that can be hidden when things are internal. Just wondering what loopholes might work.