Graduate Enrollment Is Softening? Good.
The number of students enrolling in graduate school is steadily declining, according to a recent report by the Council of Graduate Schools. Although grad-school enrollment increased by six percent between…
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Students Want More Grad-School Outcomes Transparency
Graduate school is often considered a helpful step in furthering one’s career. Students pursue graduate degrees with the hopes of better job opportunities, promotions, and financial returns on their investment.…
Reform Graduate Lending
While our country’s approach to all student lending needs a radical overhaul, there is one category of lending that sticks out as especially broken: graduate-student loans. Since the turn of…
Higher Education and the Law of Diminishing Returns, Part II
Recently, I argued in a Martin Center article that the fourth year of study for the bachelor’s degree is probably relatively unproductive and that enormous resources could be saved by…
The Numbers Are in: Are Graduate Degree Programs Worth It?
Preston Cooper, a researcher at The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity studying the economics of higher education, recently published a wide-ranging analysis of almost 14,000 U.S. graduate degree programs.…
Leaving the Blight of Higher Education: Part II–Farewell, Faculty
Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part essay; part I can be read here. The previous essay dealt with the moral decline of the student body in higher…
No, the World Doesn’t Need More Humanities PhDs
In May, The Chronicle of Higher Education asked four academics from across the country to weigh in on the “adjunct crisis.” The results were predictable, with most of the blame directed at the usual…
Master’s Degrees in Janitorial Science?
There has been mounting evidence that the financial payoff from the traditional bachelor’s degree is declining, particularly for men. For example, Census Bureau data suggest that, from 2005 to 2016,…
Automatic Pay Raises for Teachers Create Perverse Incentives in Graduate Education
In 2013, North Carolina stopped giving automatic pay raises to public school teachers who earn master’s degrees. In the legislature, the debate focused on teachers and whether graduate degrees make…