100% Agreed. To make matters worse, the economic value of the data modeling / computational skills one can learn in graduate school has vastly eclipsed the typi

100% Agreed. To make matters worse, the economic value of the data modeling / computational skills one can learn in graduate school has vastly eclipsed the typical graduate student stipend. Having recently started a graduate program after many years in Tech, I was a bit surprised to learn that most people in my department are implicit data scientists, or at the very least, data-science adjacent. The monetary opportunity cost is not great for society. In California, typical graduate student stipends are roughly on par with the state's minimum wage ($15 an hour). Good luck trying to buy a house with that money, or trying to recruit anyone who is not straight out of college.