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To: SeekAndFind

Graduate Students (except maybe for Docs and Vets) need to go get a job and go to school part-time.


7 posted on 08/03/2011 11:48:12 AM PDT by Paladin2
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I did my masters part time the first year and full time when I got laid off. Lucky for me I got it in something marketable, instead of Wymyn’s Studies or Western Colonial Oppression.


13 posted on 08/03/2011 11:55:29 AM PDT by Thane_Banquo
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I would add scientists (real, not social) and engineers to that list. For both categories, however, the program is almost always either funded through doing research or being a TA. The salaries that I am familiar with (on top of paid tuition) are around 15-20k/year.


31 posted on 08/03/2011 2:04:19 PM PDT by jimnm
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Oh, and no funding for graduate work in social sciences. It’s subsidizing a product that is not valued in the marketplace. Where it is valued, it is because it will be used in a government job. It would be nice if the nation would refocus on the sciences. There are perfectly bright kids who graduate high school who choose degrees that should not be offered only because the government is paying and the department offering the degree is subsidized by the university through degree requirements.


32 posted on 08/03/2011 2:08:48 PM PDT by jimnm
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