Professor Crunches Numbers: PhD Students Are Costly Apprentices, Not Workers
Economist Afinetheorem pushes back on the notion that PhD students are workers, estimating that training one costs a university about $500,000, backed by internal emails showing faculty fighting for PhD stipends.
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