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> You are very off (unfortunately) about how little PhD students are being paid All in costs for a PhD student include university overheads & tuition fees. The
by pja 8mo ago
> You are very off (unfortunately) about how little PhD students are being paid
All in costs for a PhD student include university overheads & tuition fees. The total probably doesn't hit $150k but is 2-3x the stipend that the student is receiving.
Someone currently working in academia might have current figures to hand.
- latexr 8mo agoWorth mentioning that numbers for the US are unlikely to be representative when discussing it as a whole, though might be relevant to this specific case.
- pja 8mo agoIn the UK the all in cost of a PhD student starts somewhere around £45k once you include overheads I believe. If you need expensive lab support then it probably goes up from there. So about $75k for the bottom end? The quoted numbers sound about right in PPP terms in that case.