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Faksimile: EinsteinQualified full-time students may receive teaching assistantships and tuition waivers. A full-time graduate student must take at least 9 credits.

  • Starting Fall 2004, teaching assistantships for new PhD students will be $20,000 for the whole year! Students are expected to work 20 hours per week for the department.
  • Tuition waivers cover most of the 9 credits required for full-time students.

Remaining fees:

  • Part of the tuition and fees: Instate students pay ~ $450, out-of-state students ~ $700. Due about 3 weeks after the term starts.
  • Foreign students: About $800 a year for health insurance. Must be paid before registration!

Work load: 20 hours per weak. Typical duties are

  • 4 sections of College Algebra tutorials (each section meets one hour a week) plus grading and additional hours in the math lab, or
  • 3 sections of Statistics tutorials (each section meets 2 hours a week) plus grading, or
  • teaching one section of a course like Methods of Calculus, Trigonometry, etc. (requires at least 18 graduate mathematics credits), or
  • 12 hours in the math lab, answering questions of students
    in lower division courses.