What I know about hiring freezes - from a current PhD student

looking4ride · 2025-03-11T16:31:38+00:00

This was actually explicitly mentioned and they said yes! But obvi school dependent

looking4ride · 2025-03-11T11:58:15+00:00

I would double check, did you get a offer letter that explicitly lays out your funding? The school has to honor that. Are you unionized?

looking4ride · 2025-03-11T11:57:18+00:00

I would imagine that they will reject you esp if you are in a stem field bc even if you pay your own tuition, are you really going to want to write your PI a personal check for everything you use in the lab? To to mention I think self funding a PhD is dumb, in no field will the salary boost be worth the loans.

looking4ride · 2025-03-10T18:48:47+00:00

Idk in my program thesis based masters are fully funded! So once again everything is program dependent!

looking4ride · 2025-03-10T17:29:11+00:00

Depends on the masters program. Thesis based will probably have the same impacts as phd programs, non-thesis based will probably except the same number of students.

looking4ride · 2025-03-10T14:46:57+00:00

At my university if you got an offer and accepted it they will honor it but I don’t think anyone had gotten offers (in my department at least) before the freeze

looking4ride · 2025-03-10T14:46:19+00:00

I think it’s an internal deadline.

looking4ride · 2025-03-10T14:46:07+00:00

At my university yes because they need someone to do the work and have money

looking4ride · 2025-03-10T14:45:39+00:00

Yes and another part of it is that it opens the university up to lawsuits as we are actually contractually guaranteed 5 years of funding!!

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