Economic decline boosts graduate enrolment.
Applications to US graduate schools rose sharply as the economy slipped into recession, reports the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) in Washington DC. Applications jumped by 8.3% from 2008 to 2009, almost double the average annual increase of the past ten years, according to the CGS's 14 September report 'Graduate Enrollment and Degrees: 1999–2009'. Economic recessions have long been linked with a rise in graduate-school applications, notes CGS research director Nathan Bell. Of 11 fields surveyed, the highest growth was in applications to health-sciences programmes — 14.6% over 2008–2009 — a trend Bell attributes to a growth in health services for an ageing population.
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US applications up. Nature 467, 491 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nj7314-491b
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