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Where does the money to pay students come from? Often, schools receive grants designated to pay for teaching as well as a student’s stipend. It’s not clear tha
by ejstronge 9y ago
Where does the money to pay students come from?
Often, schools receive grants designated to pay for teaching as well as a student’s stipend. It’s not clear that any granting organization will offer $1 million, though perhaps your wife’s institution is an outlier.
- fhood 9y agoIn my experience it comes from grants that the adviser gets for other research.
- mattkrause 9y agoIt varies a great deal from department to department, even at the same school. Many biomedical programs start with "rotations", where students do a few brief internships (a few months each) in different labs before choosing an advisor. This is covered by an institutional training grant like the NIH's T32 (https://researchtraining.nih.gov/programs/training-grants/T32 https://researchtraining.nih.gov/programs/training-grants/T3...). Once they choose an advisor, funding comes from a variety of sources: the advisor's research grants (e.g., R01s), fellowships directly to the grad student, and even money from the university in exchange for "service" like TAing. My impression is that training grants are rarer in the physical sciences, but there are more TAships.