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Yeah, this is the #1 thing people get wrong about STEM grad school. Not only is tuition 100% covered, you get a stipend that's usually 20-30k per year depending
by cbkeller 8y ago
Yeah, this is the #1 thing people get wrong about STEM grad school. Not only is tuition 100% covered, you get a stipend that's usually 20-30k per year depending on local cost of living. Masters is completely covered too if you go in to a program that's expected to continue on to a PhD, and will as likely as not be covered even for a plain masters in some pure science fields.
- kevinventullo 8y agoThe stipend is even north of 30k in STEM at places like Harvard and MIT.
- infinite8s 8y agoIt's even north of 30k at places like John's Hopkins in super cheap Baltimore (and this was more than 10 years ago when I left)
- kevinventullo 8y agoCould be a private school vs public school distinction. UC stipends were < 30k in the early 2010's.
- infinite8s 8y agoPerhaps, but our stipends were determined by NIH training grants.
- selimthegrim 8y agoIt was <20 at UCSB in chemistry then.
- blang 8y agoNon-STEM too for Harvard and Yale, I have friends who are art history PhDs at both places. However, it's a long slog without a big money payoff after graduation, in fact it is better to be a student in most cases.
- artwr 8y agoIt really depends on how well the program/department is funded. Computer Science usually is. I was in a program (Environmental Engineering) where most masters degree students had to pay full price. Grants or graduate student positions wouldn't kick in until year 2. Even then, full tuition was never a guarantee. This was UC Berkeley.