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Graduate Education

Our news, opinion, and advice stories about graduate education in higher education can answer questions, like:

  • Can students pay for graduate school?
  • How are universities managing their graduate programs?
  • What will graduate education look like in the future?
Advice
Too many Ph.D. students still feel compelled to make their career plans in secret.
Advice
By Rebecca Colesworthy June 5, 2025
An acquisitions editor offers eight tips for marketing-shy academics.
Advice
By L. Maren Wood May 13, 2025
With hiring on hold in many sectors, what should graduate students, postdocs, and their universities be doing?
Advice
By Maria LaMonaca Wisdom April 16, 2025
Five tips to improve your mentoring and make it less time-consuming.
The Review | Essay
By Blake Smith April 9, 2025
The story of a philosopher and her wayward student.
'This is not a drill'
By Maddie Khaw April 2, 2025
A renewed focus on engagement, some researchers say, is urgent and overdue. “When science is sidelined,” one said, “people get hurt.”
Advice
By Azmi A. Ahmad March 28, 2025
A lack of oversight and accountability allows abusive faculty mentors to operate unchecked in research labs.
Advice
By Maria LaMonaca Wisdom March 7, 2025
The old approach — professor as role model and advice giver — is no longer sustainable.
'The Chilling Effect'
By Maddie Khaw February 26, 2025
Colleges are pausing and resuming offers, reducing spots, and delaying decisions as the Trump administration pushes for research-funding cuts.
Advice
By Alexander B. Joy February 25, 2025
What to tell your Ph.D. students about their nonacademic options.