Las Universidades Americanas Reducen sus Aceptaciones a Doctorado

De manera informal había estado escuchando que este año, muchas universidades americanas habían reducido sus aceptaciones de aplicantes a sus programas de doctorado, básicamente por motivos económicos. Parece ser que esto es cierto, de acuerdo a un artículo de Insider Higher Ed, Ph.D. Admissions Shrinkage . Algunos párrafos de esta nota.

Emory University plans a 40 percent cut in the number of new Ph.D. students it will enroll this fall. Columbia University is planning a 10 percent cut. Brown University has called off a planned increase in Ph.D. enrollments. The University of South Carolina is considering a plan to have some departments that have admitted doctoral students every year shift to an every-other-year system. These cuts are exclusively for Ph.D. programs. Terminal master's programs and professional school programs are generally being encouraged to fill their classes; those programs are of course ones in which many universities assume students will pay most or all costs themselves, using loans as needed

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At Columbia University, the 10 percent cut is for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, which typically enrolls 320 new Ph.D. students a year. While the universities named in this article are announcing the changes on an institution-wide basis, some graduate program directors elsewhere said that similar changes were going on, on department-by-department bases, without much fanfare.

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Esto seguramente provocará un aumento en la competencia para ciertos programas, como Economía, que ya de por sí son altamente competitivos. Y seguramente quedaran, por lo pronto, algunos buenos candidatos sin oportunidad, que en otras circunstancias hubieran sido aceptados.