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STEM PhD students do not pay for their education
by selimthegrim 11mo ago
STEM PhD students do not pay for their education
- vannevar 11mo agoThis is manifestly not true. What leads you to believe this? Certainly there are some who don't, just as with undergraduate education. But there's no blanket program in the US to pay for all STEM PhDs.
- kragen 11mo agoAll of the dozens of US STEM PhDs I know from recent decades had to pay their tuition by working as TAs, RAs, or usually both. They didn't walk in the door with a trust fund, work through the coursework, and then write up a dissertation. I'm not sure that's even a possibility in most STEM fields: you need access to millions of dollars of ultra-specialized equipment which you can realistically only get by working in an existing lab, which means being an RA.
- donkyrf 11mo agoSTEM PhD students typically pay with labor rather than cash. Labor to teach undergrads, and to perform other university research. (though they typically pay their undergrad with large piles of cash). That is, very much, a substantial form of payment.
- neuah 11mo agoTrue, but I would say a large fraction of foreign nationals who do PhDs in the US were undergrad educated at least partially in the US.
- kelipso 11mo agoThey work like a 120k a year job for 30k a year.