I wonder how many of these students are actually paying for their “education?”
As far as I know, the only graduate programs where students do not pay for the education are in the hard sciences. These are also the programs that train students for jobs that have very low unemployment rates (about 2% in my field).
Graduate students in soft subjects often accumulate mountains of debt, and graduate to find out there are no jobs in their field. Sure, their masters and PhD certificates look nice on the wall, and the PhD recipients are privileged to be called "Dr.", but their degrees are worthless. There is not a lot of employment out there for people whose main skill is digging up proof of racism, sexism, and other isms everywhere they look.
I attended a private women’s college in the 1990’s. In history, a black femal student had her head on her desk in front of me, asleep. After class, I asked her if she was worried she missed the review for the upcoming test and her response was, “If I fail, you will just pay me to take the class again.”