<p>I was admitted into the electrical engineering MS/PHD track. The e-mail noted that financial aid decisions will be given before April 15. Do most incoming PhD EE students at Stanford receive some form of financial assistance? I'd appreciate any feedback.</p>
<p>I am not yet a student at Purdue but am strongly considering enrolling and taking my first class next fall. I’ll be pursuing a MS degree in Astronautics & Aeronautics. It is a distance program and my employer is paying for it, so I can’t answer your questions about funding.</p>
<p>I’m not, </p>
<p>what’s MS/Phd track…does it mean your a ph.d student and they’ll give you a masters a couple years in, or your a M.S. student that will go on to enter Ph.d</p>
<p>if it’s the same as civil, then don’t bet your chance on it. you most likely won’t get any funding for your master year. pretty sure the only way to get it now is through TA/RA. expect to pay in full unless you TA/RA which means only 3 classes allowed each quarter. so you need 5 quarters to get your master…heck even fighting for funding when you are phd is hard…
from what i know, at least for civil, MS/PHD doesn’t guarantee your admission to phd after your master. you still have to complete MS first and try to get admitted to phd program under some professor. granted it’s a lot easier than applying from other school but now funding is a problem… but anyways
good luck!! and congrats!</p>
<p>before taking the quals, is there really a tangible difference between getting admitted as an MS versus PhD student then? it seems like the only “benefit” of being admitted as a PhD student is that you do not have to petition to take the quals.</p>