Graduate and professional school students are about to experience an unprecedented funding gap. Thanks to One Big Beautiful Bill’s elimination of the Grad PLUS loan program – which allowed borrowing ...

Columnist Kamau Louis argues that Penn administration must pass a contract with grad student workers in order to avoid disaster.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. President Donald Trump, joined by Republican lawmakers, signs the One, Big Beautiful Bill Act into law during an Independence ...

One night during my junior year of college, I stayed late in my adviser’s biochemistry lab to run some kinetics experiments on catalytic antibodies—data that would become part of my senior thesis. I ...

When Amir Nijem got into graduate school, he knew he’d have to take out loans. Such degrees cost $20,000 a year on average at private institutions, and his particular program – a master's in public ...

This is one half of a two-part story on whether graduate school is worth it. Check out the companion piece, "How This Lawyer Ended Up With $350,000 In Debt And Near Poverty-Level Income." People go to ...

・The Big Beautiful Bill eliminates Grad PLUS loans beginning in the 2026-27 school year. ・Graduate students will face stricter borrowing caps and need rely on unsubsidized federal loans or private ...

We know that grad school can be challenging. Many of us at C&EN have gone through this intensely grueling yet gratifying experience, and we’ve survived to tell about it. But don’t take it from us. Get ...