"Grad School Is in Trouble"

[Janit]

dk62 wrote:
[quote=kj]
[quote=Lemon Drop]
They also want to do away with federal student loans.

I know zero people who did their masters, med or law school without those.

How did JD pay for Yale?

Just a fwiw, not a pro-trump, but I got a graduate degree and my wife did as well living on an assistantship, and I don’t even think we had access to student loans. We got 10-12k a year, which was enough to live.
So did I and everyone else in my PhD program, as well as my college friends who went to different universities (all molecular biology). But I am sure that depends on the field of study and does not apply to most expensive ones (like law and medicine).
The thing about lab sciences like molecular biology is that a significant proportion of the degree work involves working in a lab, so that salaries for the students as lab workers can be rationalized on the grants of the research advisors. In the biology program I was in, the department also had a general grant to support the students who were not yet working in labs. One way or the other, every grad student got their tuition covered for the two years of required coursework, and a living stipend for however long they did the lab work necessary for their dissertation. Not every institution could get this level of support, but at that time the national attitude supporting biomedical research was a big help.

Every discipline or school will have a different relationship/history with possible sources of funding.