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COVxy posted...

My guess is that it'll be dreadfully uninformed.

There aren't any problems with grad school.
You only need a bachelors to teach high school. So grad school has no impact on lower education.

Professors are broken into two categories for the most part.
Majors where ther eare far too many and majors where there are far too few.
The majors where there are far too many are the luxury PhD's. Where people are going to college to study a field with no jobs on the market. Think philosphy, women's studies, lots of arts and things like that.

The only job that exists for these people are teaching degrees, because they only exist as majors to prepetuate a cycle of researchers/hobbyists. I'm not saying they have no value in the workforce as a supplement to other things, but philosphy by itself has no value beyond teaching it to others.
For the most part it seems majors are either focus on doing a paying job with actual demand vs demand created only by academia.


The shortages only exist in professor jobs like engineering, science... well STEM basically and for a reason that has nothing to do with a fault in their grad programs, but rather that someone who is qualified enough to be a stem professor has very little reason to actually be a stem professor. They have more monetary value than what colleges can afford. A CS major with a phd in the field will make way way way more money than a CS professor will because doing computer science produces more revenue than teaching it.


That "problem" isn't addressed by improving Grad programs, but by allocating way more funds to STEM departments in colleges.


The problem of professors not getting jobs in philosphy has nothing to do with the quality or price of their education. It's more of supply and demand and maybe an awareness campaign needs to go in place to stress the dire situation of hobbyist majors.

But almost ever student knows this going in. It isn't a matter of ignorance. Hence why I called grad school a luxury because the only fields that have bachelors degrees that are nothing by themselves are fields with absolutely no demand in the market

People putting their hobbies and interests over their livelihood and they know the risks.




The only aspect of grad school that may need fixing is medical school, but every problem of medical school is a result of fixing the problem of computer science and engineers.
If the programs were not expensive then there would be little incentive to teach in medical school a a doctor