100 Reasons NOT to Go to Graduate School

This blog is an attempt to offer those considering graduate school some good reasons to do something else. Its focus is on the humanities and social sciences. The full list of 100 reasons will be posted in time. Your comments and suggestions are welcome.

100 Reasons

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Monday, April 18, 2011

55. There are too many PhDs.

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The reason that there are so few jobs to be found in academe (see Reason 8 ) is not because there are too few colleges, universities, depart...

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Wednesday, December 1, 2010

35. Mumbo-jumbo abounds.

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It is difficult to exaggerate the degree to which mumbo-jumbo has permeated academe. The problem is especially egregious in the humanities, ...

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Monday, September 6, 2010

6. Intellectual expectations are falling.

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Ironically, as the average time-to-degree increases, more and more graduate degrees require less and less work. Consider master’s degrees. W...

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5. Graduate school is not what it used to be.

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Grad school is not what it was, because college is not what it was. Before World War II, about five percent of Americans had college degree...

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100 Reasons: 100 Reasons is the result of long experience. Many of you will choose to go to graduate school despite these admonitions, but it would be good for you to bear them in mind so that the things that can make graduate school difficult and frustrating do not come as a surprise to you.

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