Speaking of unforeseen disasters …
The Pandemic Is Causing Grad Schools To Crap Out
It will come as no shock that, just like everything else aside from an entire tub of ice cream, the pandemic has made it a million times harder to finish a graduate course. And sadly, it’s way worse than just the shuttered libraries or glitchy webcam lectures where a tenured professor wastes 20 minutes turning off the cat filter.
If getting an advanced degree was becoming a terrible investment in the before times, the pandemic has turned these subprime educations into toxic assets that can crash at any moment. In order to save their most essential workers, the sports coaches, marketing teams, and anti-union lawyers, universities started slashing into their education budgets like Jason slashes into coeds. Not only are thousands of teaching positions being cut every day (650,000 in 2020 alone), admins are pulling the plug on any degree that can’t fill a classroom with five hundred hungover undergrads. That puts the much smaller (and thus less professor-efficient) advanced courses first in line for the chopping block, meaning grad students everywhere have to worry if today’s the day their degree stops existing because the dean wants to turn the faculty building into luxury dorms to attract rich international students.
And if having to switch colleges in the middle of a degree is disastrous for undergrads (the dropout rate is staggering), it’s downright deadly for grad students as their degrees have become so hyperfocused there’s often no obvious equivalent elsewhere. Like an Eastern-European stuck in an airport because their ex-Soviet state stopped existed in between layovers, these faculty-less refugees aren’t guaranteed to find anyone willing to recognize their paperwork. Those who do manage to find a new campus to call home will often have to make a major sacrifice, often in the form of settling for a subpar degree, moving to a faraway college, and/or starting over with only partial credit.
5 Reasons Going To Grad School Isn't Worth It Anymore
Source: Pinoy Daily News
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