Editor,
I would like to express my disappointment and anger with the policy used to enroll students into graduate school. I graduated this May with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, and I was excited to pursue my master’s degree in the same career field. So I invested much of my own time, money and effort to apply for the MSME program and begin my graduate studies this coming semester. Eventually, I was officially admitted into the program.
However, a few weeks later I struggled to find an assistantship that fits my research interests. To my dismay, I discovered that a consensus was reached by these faculty members to eliminate the coursework option.
If graduate school applicants are admitted into the program of their choice, they must be guaranteed some sort of assistantship or another project that they can use to earn their master’s or Ph.D. I believe it’s wrong for anyone to be admitted into a graduate program only to be told that there are no means of earning their graduate degree.
Andres Saenz
UNM student
