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First published:
October 20th, 2025

Source:
https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-332-ai-phd-grads-are-unsellable

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The visualization compares Technical University Wien, Technical University of Munich, Technical University Berlin, MIT, and Cornell University, with each institution having two bars representing different types of instruction time across a four-year course of study.

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