What are RA, TA and Fellowship?
These are the common funding opportunities for graduate students, providing you with comfortable monthly stipend to cover your living in Boston and waived the tuition fees (phew!). Teaching Assistant (TA) is expected to spend 20 to 30 hours a week residing on tutorials (informal lectures with students), create problems sets, and perhaps mark them. Research Assistant (RA) works on research projects (which may or may not be your PhD thesis). These projects may be long term (better make it your PhD!) or short term contract research work with companies. If you can incorporate the research into your thesis, then you may actually find extra time to pursue other interests. The best of all is, of course, a fellowship (scholarship).
Related Questions
- I have a Fellowship, and I have not yet joined a research group. What do I do with the time that RA, TA, and GA students use to perform their assigned duties?
- What is the payment schedule for TA/RAs and Adjunct Faculty for 2009 - 2010?
- What range of GRE scores are considered for TA/RA/Fellowship funding?
