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Sorry if its a little OT, but I actually have this question: Is it normal for grad students to get reimbursed by their institution for conference travel?

• siyer 12y ago
  Polices tend to be lab and department specific. Most everyone I know if reimbursed for flights and hotels (though they are typically required to apply for internal travel grants that exist for this purpose). Food reimbursement varies from lab to lab.
• ylem 12y ago
  In my experience, in the US, it is normal to reimburse physics graduate students. I won't say how many of us there were to a room at times, but we were reimbursed....
• eob 12y ago
  CS PhD here: In our field, yes.
• Osmium 12y ago
  In my department, typically each student has a finite amount allocated for conference travel. After that, you either apply for travel grants, or (commonly) your supervisor will probably have access to extra funding, but it's still a finite resource. Nobody would go to a conference if they had to pay their own way because nobody's paid enough to be able to, quite frankly.