Financial Support

Financial Support

Financial support is guaranteed for four years to students making satisfactory progress. Students receive full tuition, a stipend, and individual health coverage. Support is in the form of fellowships, teaching assistantships and research assistantships. Teaching assistants either teach recitation sections or grade papers for more advanced courses. Both jobs are paid at the same rate, and both require about 12 hours per week.

In academic year 2009-10 stipends for assistantships are $2408 per month for nine months (Sept 1--May 31) and include individual health coverage for 12 months. Some additional financial support is available during the summer. See summer support.

Students are encouraged to seek outside support, which reduces teaching and/or grading duties. Outside support sometimes exceeds the internal support level. If it does not, then it is supplemented up to the full internal support level.