Enrollment rates in higher education have been declining in the United States over the years as other countries catch up.
If only college education wasn’t that expensive…
Also, it sucks that many PHd programs limit that amount of time you can be employed. I would love to pursue doctorate if 1/ I could afford it 2/ do it while keeping my job.
I don’t think a PhD is or should be possible with a full time job. Maybe for truly exceptional individuals.
Maybe some moonlighting would be okay.
It’s allowed in many countries.
Why would you say this? Because you perhaps weren’t afforded the same flexibility or accommodations in pursuing your own higher degree and so now would work to deny others?
I say this because I don’t think it is too big of a thing to be completed in spare time after a full time job. And I think a PhD should be a big thing.
Most PhD positions are really time flexible already. Certainly there are exceptions but academia in general is time flexible and PhDs are no different. But they do require a good amount of time because contributing to the sum total of all human knowledge is a big thing and takes time.
If you know the field well enough to add to it and can defend your dissertation, you have earned your degree.
The full time job requirements are to limit the pool of applicants to the rich and those desperate enough to kiss however many rings and assholes demanded.
Einstein worked while pursuing his Ph.D. Think of the advances people with that philosophy have denied the world.
Tuition prices (except for certain stuff like medicine) finally got to the level where the economic benefit of pursuing the coursework is dubious… Invisible hand at work!
