— down from as many as a dozen. Medieval Studies could make just one offer, down from its usual two. Classics will have three spots instead of four.
Facing an 8 percent federal tax on its endowment investment income and resulting University budget cuts, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has reduced the size of incoming graduate student cohorts across various programs. Administrators’ plans to reduce graduate student enrollment over the next three years — by approximately 13 percent in the humanities and social sciences and 5 percent in STEM programs — emerged in the winter.
Now, some enrollment numbers for next year are coming into focus. Directors of graduate studies across a variety of departments, who provided the sizes of the incoming and previous classes, told the News that the reductions will diminish graduate and undergraduate student experiences.
“Because the cuts came so quickly and were a surprise to many of us, we’re now kind of scrambling to figure out what other kind of changes we need to make to our programs in response to what seems to be a far smaller profile or footprint for graduate education in our program,” Daniel HoSang, the director of graduate studies for Yale’s American Studies Program, said in a phone interview.