What percentage of graduate students get TA or RA positions?
We reserve most of our discretionary financial support for doctoral students. We typically are able to provide roughly 5-6 doctoral students a year with a level of support that allows them to focus on their studies. Essentially all of our financial support is awarded to doctoral students, and admission is very competitive in the doctoral program particularly compared to the masters program where as many as or more than 40% of applicants might get admitted. (The number of applications to our doctoral programs could range in a given year from 50 to 100.) It is possible for masters students to get jobs on campus upon arriving here, but as a rule we do not guarantee TA or RA positions in advance to incoming masters students.
