Financial Assistance

Teaching assistantships are available on a competitive basis. Students are appointed to assistantships with the expectation of reappointment, assuming normal progress, for a total period of two years. Assuming normal progress toward the degree, students on assistantships:

• entering our master's program can expect a maximum of two years of assistantship support with tuition and health insurance payment.  If the master's degree takes more than two years, students are responsible for their own tuition and health insurance.

Teaching assistants are appointed on a nine-month basis. Their stipends for 20 hours of service per week are currently $11,200 for masters' students.

Assistantships in the department are administered under general Graduate School rules. Special funds for outstanding students and several types of minority scholarships are awarded by the Graduate School. [For details on these appointment matters, click here.]