UC Santa Cruz Fired 54 Graduate Students

UC Santa Cruz fired 54 striking graduate student employees. The employees had refused to turn in final grades as part of their strike. The strike was not authorized by the union and the [...]

Southern Methodist University received a $100 million gift from the Moody Foundation to establish the Moody School of Graduate and Advanced Studies. The new graduate school will be SMU’s [...]

Our graduate school admission timeline has been updated for recommended November and December activities. Please keep in mind that most of our published content is inherently generic by its very [...]

Yesterday, the University of Chicago announced new funding guidelines for Ph.D. students in humanities and social sciences. These reforms will take two years to fully roll out and will be made [...]

Brown University dropped the GRE requirement for 24 of its Ph.D. programs. The decision is effective immediately, which will be welcome news for many prospective 2020 matriculants. It’s [...]

DesignIntelligence (DI) released its 2020 architecture school rankings. DI compiled over 12,000 surveys from recruiters, students deans and department chairs this year. However, only the 4,000 [...]

Richard Vedder wrote a great editorial in Forbes earlier today about the underemployment among English Ph.D. graduates and what is preventing the needed ‘market correction.’ We think [...]

A rule proposed Friday by the NLRB could deal a significant setback to graduate school student unions. More specifically, the proposal, linked above, states graduate students at private [...]

Add Princeton University to the growing list of schools that are making the GRE optional for graduate school applicants. In Princeton’s case, the following 14 departments voted to make the [...]

Northwestern University announced a new $50 million gift for scholarships from San Francisco money management firm founder Jeff Ubben and his wife Laurie. It’s the largest gift Northwestern [...]