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Comment by woeirua

7 hours ago

Not really. Grad students are already essentially working for free.

How many lavishly-paid deans and bureaucrats and administrators are employed for each grad student?

  • Generally universities take half the grant from the start and that's before taking fringe on top of salaries.

  • It's not easy to disentangle and it varies by country and institution, but those positions are not normally directly funded by public research grants.