one thing i'm a bit worried about (especially with longer programs, though in theory this could happen with any program) is that we don't really know what the state of the country and university funding will look like in two or three years, and it would be kind of scary to be halfway or two-thirds of the way through your course of study and find out that the university can't fund you anymore ðŸ«
not saying that this will happen but some of the people i know in phd programs (which i know is a different thing and more federally reliant) were kicked out halfway through because they couldn't be funded anymore, and they didn't get their degrees either which is wild
