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22 Post author: Academian 04 October 2015 10:11AM

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Comment author: Unnamed 05 October 2015 09:43:50PM 5 points [-]

Grad school is free. At most good PhD programs in the US, if you get in then they will offer you funding which covers tuition and pays you a stipend on the order of $25K per year. In return, you may have to do some work as a TA or in a professor's lab.

The real cost is the ~5 years of your life.

Comment author: CellBioGuy 05 October 2015 10:01:37PM *  4 points [-]

This is most assuredly the case in the biological sciences. And you DO have to do work with your mentor, and sometimes also TA.