If you were a professor, how would you choose your PhD students?

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@juillet

I don’t think that was the consensus. Master’s funding actually does exist in some STEM fields. We just said it was a lot harder to get than PhD funding, and offered various opinions on reasons why.

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@jack63

These is no such thing as a “Period” in academia. There is always an exception to the rule. Occasionally, Masters students get full funding.

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<p>Okay, juillet and jack63. Of course, we’ll keep hoping for the best. The prognosis seemed unanimously bleak to me (that master’s students don’t get funding) because CCer’s have either said it simply doesn’t happen, or they’ve said that good, viable PhD students will be chosen for funding over good, viable master’s students. The reasoning makes sense.</p>

<p>The school in question is a large, public, research university with a very good reputation for my son’s field. I can’t imagine that there won’t be plenty of great PhD candidates applying for the same year of entry. So, that’s why it seemed to me that people unanimously agreed – the prospect for funding a master’s is slim to none.</p>

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@rhandco

My school and several others give teaching assistantships in exchange for tuition remission and a small stipend. Master’s students do not have access to either.

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@xraymancs

Of course a good Masters student is welcome but an equally good Ph.D. student is better.

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<p>Maybe, just maybe his prof or department will take a chance on him. I’ll try to remember to update here when funding decisions are final.</p>