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You're simply wrong. Higher-income college students are far more likely to go to graduate school than lower-income students. > The percentage of students enrol

by traek 9y ago

You're simply wrong. Higher-income college students are far more likely to go to graduate school than lower-income students. > The percentage of students enrolling in graduate school increases with family income. Among dependent 2007–08 four-year college graduates, 39 percent of those from families in the lowest income quartile, 42 percent from middle-income families, and 45 percent from the highest income quartile had enrolled in graduate school within four years of college graduation. [0] It's also misleading for you to look only at figures for STEM fields, in which international students are much more highly represented than other fields. I'm not sure why you're using looking at STEM only and using that to prove your point. The NYTimes article you linked says it best: > "in arts and humanities, the figure [of students which are international] was about 16 percent; in business, a little more than 18 percent." Providing tax breaks for graduate school does disproportionately benefit the upper middle class and the wealthy. [0] https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/86981/who_goes_to_graduate_school_and_who_succeeds_0.pdf https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/86981/...

ejstronge 9y ago
Not to wade into the discussion about who makes what money (we need data, full stop) - but in humanities, students largely do not get the type of tuition waivers that are under discussion. By ignoring STEM students, you're overlooking the people who would primarily be affected.
seanmcdirmid 9y ago
Depends on the field. Students from developing countries are usually not lower class, but, compared to Americans, have much lower income. In many fields, especially STEM ones that actually provide tutition waivers, these students make up significant chunk of the students. There is liberal arts, but tuition waivers are much more rare there. I’m sure this is what the Trumpists were really after. He is not very friendly to immigrants, after all. And STEM doesn’t really mesh with make America great again mantra of bringing back low skilled manufacturing jobs.

by traek 9y ago

ejstronge 9y ago

Not to wade into the discussion about who makes what money (we need data, full stop) - but in humanities, students largely do not get the type of tuition waivers that are under discussion. By ignoring STEM students, you're overlooking the people who would primarily be affected.

seanmcdirmid 9y ago

Depends on the field. Students from developing countries are usually not lower class, but, compared to Americans, have much lower income. In many fields, especially STEM ones that actually provide tutition waivers, these students make up significant chunk of the students. There is liberal arts, but tuition waivers are much more rare there. I’m sure this is what the Trumpists were really after. He is not very friendly to immigrants, after all. And STEM doesn’t really mesh with make America great again mantra of bringing back low skilled manufacturing jobs.