"Grad School Is in Trouble"

[$tevie]

The Trump administration has frozen, slashed, threatened, and otherwise obstructed the tens of billions of dollars in funding that universities receive from the government, and then found ways around the court orders that were meant to stop or delay such efforts. In the meantime, new proposals to raise the tax on endowment income could further eat away at annual budgets. And all of this is happening at just the time when graduate admissions are in progress.
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The administration has also called for tightened scrutiny on visas of all kinds, including student visas. This could further muddy grad-school yields by making some applicants unable to accept their offers of admissions or enroll.

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[Speedy]

“I love the uneducated.”

[Acer]

Increases taxes on endowments? Oh, look, the Taxed Enough Already party that thinks Higher Education should get off the government teat, but should also have the resources that belong to the universities outright raided with extra taxes.

[steve...]

The last thing Trump, Vance, Putin and their fascist buddies want are any more intellectuals.

[mrbigstuff]

gonna split up all those educated libs and their academies. give us back all that money! woo! woo! fack yeah!

[Janit]

We're headed back to the Middle Ages for sure.

Social collapse, poverty, serfdom, and plagues.

[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?

[Lux Interior]

The administration has also called for tightened scrutiny on visas of all kinds, including student visas.

Good idea. It will keep illegal immigrants like Musk out.

[sekker]

During Trump 1.0, they really tried to end graduate education in the US for 'ferners. They tried to limit the visas of PhD students to 4 years. They tried to make it super-hard by blocking options to go home etc.

This is all just a happy net effect of targeting the NIH budget.

[kj]

Lemon Drop wrote:
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. I know my daughter’s ex-boyfriend was in grad school about a year ago and lived on his assistantship in Riverside on 30k+ (they successfully negotiated a raise). So I’m not sure student loans are a thing for graduate degrees, though they definitely are for undergraduate degrees.