The Stipend Gap

With the disparity in graduate-student pay, some recipients are mired in debt while others own homes

By SCOTT SMALLWOOD

Alik Widge and Christopher Reese are two of the rare students who have managed to buy a home while in graduate school. The similarities end there.

Mr. Widge, who lives in his own condominium in Pittsburgh while studying robotics at Carnegie Mellon University,...

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