The University of Chicago is pausing or cutting back admissions in several of its PhD programs as the institution continues to struggle with its finances. The suspension or reduction of new graduate ...

Amid ongoing federal budget cuts, many US universities have been forced to scale back or freeze PhD admissions. The impact of these reductions is already being felt by students, early-career ...

Days after Brandeis University proposed cutting two doctoral programs in music, faculty, students and staff are pushing back, arguing the move will hobble one of the school’s oldest and ...

In what it’s calling a “temporary pause,” Boston University has suspended admissions to several PhD programs in the humanities and social sciences in the 2025-26 academic year, as well as paring down ...