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by robotresearcher
17 days ago
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Some of that money goes to the grad students. Source: I paid grad students the majority of my research funding for 16 years, and so did all my colleagues. Unless you’re building a new facility at CERN, etc, the bulk of research cost is people. |
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The “whole thing” is never cheap. Running something like a university — providing the environment, infrastructure, administration, facilities, compliance systems, equipment, libraries, grants offices, laboratories, and institutional platform that allow professors and graduate students to do research — is itself extremely expensive.
After all, if you look at the fiscal budgets of major economies, public spending on education and research is often much larger than military spending.