Re:Side effects of PhD programs
by rxin on Wednesday April 27, 2011 @01:19PM
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In most top CS schools, the teaching requirement for graduate students is minimal (e.g. you are only required to teach once or twice). This only works when the research groups are well funded and you don't need to teach to earn your living stipend.
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If, as many articles seem to be suggesting, we decrease the number of grad students, then that just means that the ones left will teach more, which distracts them from the research and (presumably) lengthens the PhDs. It's not a completely linear tradeoff, but certainly something to bear in mind.