ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that there are two issues of especial importance: whether graduate students should be concentrated in fewer institutions; and the overall scale of graduate education. Graduate education, and especially research, is liable to make scientists far more specific - there is a more limited range of jobs they fit. The idea that the natural line of development for certain universities and colleges would be to become wholly graduate institutions has cropped up repeatedly over the years. The strongest argument for graduate schools is that they would provide better teaching and supervision. For science and technology students, loneliness is less of a problem, and so little reduction in it could be expected. An impression of the effects of basing policy decisions on the misleading and inadequate data can be got by looking at the effects of the expansion after 1957 on the numbers of scientists entering graduate study.
