What is the pay for TAs and RAs?
If a student has a half-time (50%) graduate research assistantship, the workload is 20 hours a week for a professor on a research project. In exchange, the student receives a stipend of about $20,000 per year, and a tuition scholarship of about $5,000 per year. Students with graduate research or teaching assistantships of at least 10 hours a week (also called quarter-time or 25% assistantships) qualify for resident tuition (also called in-state tuition) during the semesters they hold the position. Your assistantship also comes with excellent health insurance coverage for which you pay only 10% of the premium (around $22.00/month for a single student).
