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Alarming Tuition INCREASE!!!!
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I'm currently unaware of any tuition increases at my university, but as our program only requires us to pay for fees (not the actual tuition), then I tend to disregard it anyway. If the university has increased tuition, then you can't really stop it. You can complain, of course, but I highly doubt that anything would be done about it.
Wow....that is a hike. Do they have a good reason for it? You may want to inquire about their decision and go from there. Realistically you probably can't do anything, but you never know.
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My school has no reason to increase tuition. Especially, since we are not getting anything additional for our extra money. Thankfully, I have a full scholarship, but that still reduces the amount of money I live off of!!!! grrrrr!!!! What is happening to our economy?
They have standard adjustments (inflation, etc), and then they have 'other' adjustments for facilities and whatnot (ex. building a new library, since a % may not be covered by the named donor).
Not sure where you're located, or what program or location. But I can tell you in the US, an economy that's not doing so well means alumni and benefactors give less to nonprofits. Rising oil prices means costs go up campus-wide. Faculty needs to get paid, facilities need to be maintained. Not every university has Harvard's 35 billion dollar endowment to fall back on, and even they have something like 3 billion in expenses every year.
Um... Forgive my ignorance, but what is up with people paying tuition at doctoral level?
It might be that PsyD programs are different (since they aren't research and teaching based)...
But generally speaking...
If a program accepts you for a PhD and doesn't provide you full tuition plus a feasible (though slightly rough) living stipend... Then... Um... Isn't your field telling you something?
Maybe it is different with applied PhD's (e.g., in clinical psychology or in medicine). But in research / teaching PhD's if you don't get full funding... Then... Um... Your field is telling you something... (Especially in the sciences compared with the arts in the sense that science living stipends pay considerably more than arts living stipends).
It might be that PsyD programs are different (since they aren't research and teaching based)...
But generally speaking...
If a program accepts you for a PhD and doesn't provide you full tuition plus a feasible (though slightly rough) living stipend... Then... Um... Isn't your field telling you something?
Maybe it is different with applied PhD's (e.g., in clinical psychology or in medicine). But in research / teaching PhD's if you don't get full funding... Then... Um... Your field is telling you something... (Especially in the sciences compared with the arts in the sense that science living stipends pay considerably more than arts living stipends).
PsyD programs are definitely different as very few are funded, but there are a rare few PhD programs that also don't fund students. It pretty much is the norm for schools to provide tuition waivers and stipend, but there are a few schools that don't for reasons that I don't completely understand. Some are in desirable locales (NYC) so they may figure they can get away with it and still fill their classes since there are so many people vying to get into the field. That's my best guess.
True, and correct me if I'm wrong but it seems that the humanities are notoriously poorly funded. For example, if you get into a history PhD program (especially at a non-top-tier school) , you are not guaranteed funding. If you're in a hard science, it seems that almost everyone is fully funded....
Yeah. I'm in an Arts / Social Science field. Less than half the PhD graduates ever land a job in the field (of course different universities have different ratios). That isn't even to say anything about the number of people who begin but never complete. Mostly because of job prospects... We are told:
1) Don't go to a school outside the US top 50 in the field (or international equivalents)
2) Don't go to a school that won't pay your tuition and a manageable living stipend.
I guess things are different when job prospects are better in the sense that you are likely to be better placed in paying back that loan.
But that being said... There is MORE funding in the sciences...
Still... If you apply to a school and meet basic entry requirements and are prepared to fund yourself... I pretty much thought that you could buy your way into any school in the US in particular... It was obtaining the funded places that made it competitive... E.g., on some of my applications I was asked 'will you accept a place if you don't obtain funding'. That was typically after 'please name your close relatives who have also attended this institution'.
1) Don't go to a school outside the US top 50 in the field (or international equivalents)
2) Don't go to a school that won't pay your tuition and a manageable living stipend.
I guess things are different when job prospects are better in the sense that you are likely to be better placed in paying back that loan.
But that being said... There is MORE funding in the sciences...
Still... If you apply to a school and meet basic entry requirements and are prepared to fund yourself... I pretty much thought that you could buy your way into any school in the US in particular... It was obtaining the funded places that made it competitive... E.g., on some of my applications I was asked 'will you accept a place if you don't obtain funding'. That was typically after 'please name your close relatives who have also attended this institution'.
> My graduate school has decided to charge us an extra 150 dollars per credit HOUR!!!! How can this be stopped?
Did you sign any sort of contract about your tuition? I'm thinking in particular of a contract for the cost of studying that would be held constant across your enrollment until you completed?
There are usually regulations that change during ones enrollment... But typically one isn't subjected to the new regulations if they weren't operative at the time one initially enrolled.
Do you have anything like that?
Did you sign any sort of contract about your tuition? I'm thinking in particular of a contract for the cost of studying that would be held constant across your enrollment until you completed?
There are usually regulations that change during ones enrollment... But typically one isn't subjected to the new regulations if they weren't operative at the time one initially enrolled.
Do you have anything like that?
Its very different in psychology. Since funding is expected, schools will generally refuse to accept students if they can't fund them completely. It looks bad for a school not to be able to fund 100% of the students who want it, thus typically costing them in the long-term. Granted, there are exceptions, but generally that holds true.
I think job prospects are definitely better in clinical psychology than in most/all of the other social sciences/arts. Partially because of funding, partially just because the degree is inherently a very diverse degree relative to most other graduate degrees. Given one can do anything from opening a private practice, running their own research program, being a statistician, designing computer AI, working in a human resources department, or any number of other things that are still considered within the domain of "psychology" I think it simply opens up more avenues for employment.
The downside being, I feel like as a function of being more spread-out, we typically don't emerge from grad school with as deep a knowledge of our area as graduates from other fields. My friend in philosophy, for example, knows the literature in his area of interest a LOT better than I do, simply because he's not also trying to keep up on statistics, clinical work, and computer programming, etc. and can devote more of his time to reading about that topic.
Everything is a trade-off.
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