Financial aid is available to graduate students in good standing in the form of Graduate Teaching Assistantships (GTA) and Graduate Research Assistantships (GRA). These assistantships are awarded on a competitive basis.

For a GTA, the teaching assistant is required to perform the equivalent of 20 hours per week of teaching assistant service for the Department. This service may include leading discussion sessions of homework problems, grading of papers, assisting in the development of laboratory experiments, assisting students in the laboratories, meeting students to assist them with homework, and performing other academic duties assigned by the faculty supervisor.

GRA1s are awarded by individual professors on the basis of a student1s potential to contribute to the professor1s research program. Students who receive "full-time" GRA award are expected to work for 20 hours per week assisting the faculty supervisor in his/her research project.

For the current academic year 2000 to 2001, the full-time GTA or GRA awards carry a stipend of $11,102 for first year MS students and $12,690 for the first year PhD students. These stipends are for the academic year extending from August 17, 2000 to May 31, 2001. In addition these awards provide remission of tuition for 10 credit hours per semester and health insurance coverage.


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