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Boston University stops admitting PhD students in social sciences, humanities

By adamg on Tue, 11/19/2024 - 12:38pm

Inside Higher Education reports the university is blaming the recent strike by existing graduate students for making its programs too expensive to run.

[T]he programs not accepting Ph.D. students for next academic year are American and New England studies, anthropology, classical studies, English, history, history of art and architecture, linguistics, philosophy, political science, religion, Romance studies, and sociology.

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By SwirlyGrrl on Tue, 11/19/2024 - 1:09pm.

Need to keep up the fascism. How dare those free thinkers think freely!

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By BostonDog on Tue, 11/19/2024 - 1:39pm.

The cost for the program went up and they decided to spend money on other things.

I'm guessing they still offer bachelor and masters degrees in the humanities so it's not as if they are cutting the departments.

By Lane Straddler on Tue, 11/19/2024 - 1:18pm.

Last year they "made" $84 million.
The year before that, they made $152 million.

By anon on Tue, 11/19/2024 - 1:46pm.

The alumni from those programs do not contribute as much as engineering and business, similar to the nursing school that closed.