I had a friend who attended Yale Photo MFA, one of the most prestigious art programs in the world. They still had to pay all the costs of printing and their windowless studios were in a dank basement of an old gymnasium.
suffering enables certain bonding -- art students are often massively, embarrassingly entitled
source: I was an art student
I went to a Yale arts open house one time, and all the studios I visited had daylight and were about the size of a 2-person dorm room. Different departments with different budgets?