Introducing
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
Funding your Graduate Studies
9
Graduate Funding Model:
- Assistantships
- Fellowships
- Part-time Employment
- Student Loans
Funding your Graduate Studies
Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Apply to Graduate School
Duties:
- Teach 3-4 classes per year
- Generally service courses
Benefits:
- Work experience for you.
- Faculty can focus on their specialization.
- Administration reduces labor costs.
Types of Assistantships:
- Teaching
- Research
- Administrative
- Residential
Duties:
- Work with an individual or group research project.
- Job description varies with the kind of work done.
Benefits:
- Prestige, experience, contributing to research project.
- Potential for co-authoring publications.
Duties:
- Work about 20 hours per week.
- Job descriptions vary: Writing Centers, Clerical work, Data Entry, Website or Collections Management, etc.
Benefits:
- Lighter workloads.
- Work that stays at work.
Duties:
- Supervising undergraduate residences
- Administrative duties
- Advisory duties
Benefits:
- Includes campus housing
Undergraduate Funding Model:
- Scholarships /Grants (e.g. Pell Grant)
- Parental Contribution
- Work-Study
- Student Loans
- Often combined with Assistantships.
- Managed by university as a recruitment incentive.
http://graduateschool.nd.edu/admissions/financial-support/prestigious-fellowships/fernandez-fellowships/
Investments in:
- Specific research areas
- Underrepresented populations
http://www2.ed.gov/programs/jacobjavits/index.html
http://www.hsf.net/innercontent.aspx?id=424#grads
http://www.hispanicarts.org/scholarshipmenu.htm
http://www.finaid.org/otheraid/minority.phtml
Types:
- Local
- National
- Graduate
- Dissertation
- Postdoctoral
Benefits:
- Good stipends: $20-30,000
- You focus on your studies
- May include travel funds
- Prestige
- Can enhance admissions prospects.
For any part (or all) of your graduate studies.
For dissertation work, once you've become a candidate.
For participation in a research project once you've completed your PhD.
Student Loans:
- Guaranteed Student Loans
- Low interest rates
- You don't start to pay until 6 months from the end of your studies.