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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Had a conversation with a professional colleague a few months back. His university produces about 50 PhDs per year  in his specialty.

Last year there were 40 full-time jobs in that specialty nationwide. In other words even if his students were so astoundingly wonderful that they got every single job available in the United States last year there would still be 10 of them who are unemployed.

When I asked him why they would keep doing this he had no good answer. It’s clearly just a gravy train.[/quote]

This is so infuriating. I'm the PP who advises her undergrads NOT to enroll in an MA/PhD program unless they can attend debt-free. Many of the more ethical programs actually severely limit the number of students they take because the job market is so bleak. This is especially true in the humanities, where many of the PhD students have hopes of landing a job in academia. (In some of the STEM fields, the calculus may be different because a student can presumably go into private industry.) It's truly appalling that your colleague had no good answer to your question. He's either spineless, thoughtless, or withholding the truth because he's uncomfortable admitting how unethical his department practices are.[/quote]

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