Don't Come to UVA

[immersion]

The grad school is pushing students out and raising tution in order to increase its rankings. This means that folks who have been here for four or five years now have to pay twice as much tution as previous years or have to withdraw from the school for two years and return with a finished dissertation. These decisions were made without consulting department heads or graduate students. It's a slash and burn model that is, unfortuately, pro forma at UVA. You never know what new "ideas" the administration will brainstorm or the consequences of those ideas for your livelihood, scholarly or otherwise. DONT COME TO UVA. Check this out: http://gsbuva.wordpress.com/author/gsbuva/

[aberrant]

how is "pushing students out and raising tution" related to "increase its rankings"?

[Guest |||]

how is "pushing students out and raising tution" related to "increase its rankings"?

 

This should be a GRE argument essay.

 

On the one hand youre kicking students out

 

On the other, if you only admit affluent students, maybe the department can afford better equipment

[jmu]

On the other, if you only admit affluent students, maybe the department can afford better equipment

 

Not all departments, espcially in the humanities or social sciences, need or even use any equipment other than printers and copiers and the like.

 

Program rankings are based on surveys which look at how the department is perceived by other departments in the same field. It has nothing to do with the students there unless those students are putting out particularly bad research.

[Guest |||]

Not all departments, espcially in the humanities or social sciences, need or even use any equipment other than printers and copiers and the like.

 

Program rankings are based on surveys which look at how the department is perceived by other departments in the same field. It has nothing to do with the students there unless those students are putting out particularly bad research.

 

 

As far as social sciences go, psych labs can get up there in cost

 

 

but I dont think the first post was very serious in either case, and its really just for the laughs that anyone ought to bother

[juilletmercredi]

Universities raise tuition all the time.  It doesn't mean that they are trying to raise their rankings or push students out; it means they are trying to increase revenue.  Doctoral students should have a full funding package anyway (and I'm pretty sure most PhD students at UVa do).  And if you are in the dissertation phase, you should only have to pay matriculation and facilities anyway.

 

The GSBUVA website says that tuition for advanced doctoral candidates increased 434%.  Without context, though, that's pretty meaningless.  I just looked at UVa's website and it says that PhD students in the Arts & Sciences in years 4 and beyond (PhD candidate status, I assume) only have to pay around $7,000 in tuition and fees.  That means that before they were only paying somewhere between $1000 and $1500 a year in research credits.  And again, fully funded doctoral students would have that cost covered by their fellowship.