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This is remarkable; we noted a couple of philosophy departments that were not admitting PhD students this year, but this is the first school-wide suspension of PhD admissions in the humanities and sciences. Comments are open if readers know of other schools following a similar path; please include links.
Rice University (School of Humanities) has sent out an email to folks who had started an application (I believe) stating that they will be pausing admissions to all five of its PhD programs which includes the philosophy department.
Message from the department confirms this: https://philosophy.rice.edu/prospective-graduate-students
Warwick (UK) confirmed with me via email that they will only be able to offer unfunded offers to their MA program this cycle.
Rice University (School of Humanities) has sent out an email to folks who had started an application (I believe) stating that they will be pausing admissions to all five of its PhD programs which includes the philosophy department.
Message from the philosophy department itself: https://philosophy.rice.edu/prospective-graduate-students
Warwick (UK) will only be able to make unfunded offers to their program this year. Note on funding from the department: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/studywithus/postgraduate/fees-funding
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