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The purpose of a research institution is to do research, not provide degrees to some selection of particularly smart young people. They will act in ways to incr
by dan-robertson 8y ago
The purpose of a research institution is to do research, not provide degrees to some selection of particularly smart young people. They will act in ways to increase the research they can do. People don’t deserve to be let in just because they are clever, they also should have some probability of furthering the research aims through their studying/paying fees. Why is it more unfair to let in someone who can pay for a great deal of research to be done than to reduce student numbers to pay for research to be done?
- gumby 8y agoYour first two statements I agree with but they don't really apply to this article which is about undergraduates. Undergrads are pretty much irrelevant to major research institutions (e.g. my undergraduate alma mater MIT spends only about 16% of its budget on undergrads who are actually subsidized -- tuition is about 14% of revenue). Grad students are what matter and apart from the B school they are mostly paid (barely) to attend.
- gowld 8y agoResearch students are paid to intend. professional students (business, law, government, medical, dental, etc) are not. And some scientific/art students are not research students (often these are students who enter as Masters candidates, not PhD candidates)
- gumby 8y agoI was replying to a comment specifically about research universities, which are indeed a small subset of all institutes of higher learning. Research, including scientific research, does happen at institutions that aren't "research universities."