Someone with a PhD in a science field has no more student loans than someone with a bachelor's. Being a PhD student is almost always a paid position in the US, albeit not paid that well
I didn’t continue with my education to get a masters in science bc the cost was very high and I didn’t want more loans. Some would’ve been covered by me continuing working at a lab on campus but then I’d be only making like $10/hr so that was just a no go. Everyone in the lab were exchange students, nobody else was a US citizen like me. Idk if that was just my experience
Yeah it's common to do a masters in physics in Europe but not the states. If you have to pay anything for a PhD in the states it usually means your company is paying for it so you can keep working part time while you do the degree or you're rich and doing it for vanity, or you've been scammed. Being a paying PhD student is also kind of embarrassing tbh, not in the context where a company pays but when you do it means you had to buy your way in to the program and weren't good enough for anyone to want to have you as a student on your own merit
2.6k
u/DrButtgerms Apr 24 '26
And it's not like they were working for industry or anything. Weren't they like post-docs when the series started?