For Top Colleges, Economy Has Not Reduced Interest (or Made Getting in Easier)

For Top Colleges, Economy Has Not Reduced Interest (or Made Getting in Easier) - The Choice Blog - NYTimes.com

The interesting issue for American academics is that this has had no impact on the difficulty new Ph.Ds have in getting a job,or getting decent pay once in a job.

What are all these students going to do?

Study communications and buy papers written for $10 a page by people in India?

I taught some really GREAT students at the so-called low level University of North Florida. There were some timeservers for sure, but among the graduate students I had there were some of the most committed, serious, and able students I ever met.

And my own schools were Edinburgh, London, and Fordham. [For medieval history unbeatable.]