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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And a lot of debt, usually. Don't forget that one.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

I got paid for the PhD. Not as much as I would have earned as a computer button pusher, but enough to live on.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If you have to pay to get a PhD then you were fleeced and probably deserve to lose that money

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I got paid to do gradschool. Not much cuz I didn’t shop around and just stayed where I did undergrad, but yeah, once you’re doing research, they should be paying you.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

pls no bully yanks

yanks are fren not food

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don’t know, there are lots of PhD programs in the U.S. where you’re a research assistant, which basically means your tuition is free and you’re paid a stipend for the research. In my experience, I’ve only met US PhD students who were fully funded.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From what I've heard, PhD positions in the US are funded in STEM fields, but not in the arts and social sciences. But I could be wrong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apologies for the Reddit link, but this explains a lot of what I would have said: https://www.reddit.com/r/GradSchool/comments/qwgl6h/why_is_there_a_commonly_repeated_idea_on_this_sub/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, that's interesting. So I guess the idea that arts PhDs don't get funding in the US is (mostly) a myth?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think people think that having to TA means they’re not being funded or something like that. If you’re getting into a program that doesn’t fully fund you, then that program doesn’t want you or it’s not a good research program. All reputable PhD programs fully fund across disciplines.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

According to the NCES, in 2015-16 the average PhD graduate had about $100k student debt

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/pdf/coe_tub.pdf

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe you should look outside of the US.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Ya got me there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think most of these are from undergrad and master. AFAIK most PhD are fully funded. Not enough to pay any debt, but usually enough to not starve.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think that’s maybe from undergrad or masters? Most PhD programs are fellowships or scholarships, so the student doesn’t pay for anything.