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When Calvin Santiago Lee decided to look beyond his home in the United States for a PhD position, finances played a decisive part. “I believed that…

Roughly 1.3 million international students and recent graduates enrolled in work training are in the United States for the 2025–26 academic year.Credit: Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe/GettyInternational…

Since the release of the chatbot ChatGPT in late 2022, there has been frantic debate at universities about artificial intelligence (AI). These conversations have centred on…

Many academic departments at US universities are planning to cut the size of graduate-student cohorts.Credit: Sophie Park/Bloomberg/GettyPhoenix-Avery Sarían has been interested in astronomy ever since her…

A bake sale at the University of British Columbia. Credit: Amirhossein Rashidi (AHR shots)When the National Astronomy Meeting, organized by the UK Royal Astronomical Society, descended…

Nature’s 2025 PhD surveyThis article is the third in a short series discussing the results of Nature’s 2025 PhD survey. The next article will focus on…

Nature’s 2025 PhD surveyThis article is the first in a series discussing the results of Nature’s 2025 PhD survey. The next will look at what doctoral…