Engineering MS Funding

Graduate School
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<p>I know most RA and TA positions go to PhD students, but how hard exactly is it to get funding as an MS engineering student with average grades? </p>

<p>And HOW do you go about getting it? Do you just check off "request funding" in your graduate application and if you're really lucky you get an offer when admitted?</p>

<p>Or do you get admitted and email a bunch of professors asking if they have any positions open? Is this realistic?</p>

<p>Or do you volunteer in their lab for first year and hope they give you some funding for year #2?</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>I also would like to hear a response to this question. It almost seems like MS is not worth it because of the debt. Is getting a job right after undergrad a better idea because you can get experience and make as much as an MS anyways? </p>

<p>Is the advantage of doing MS right after undergrad that you sort of have more of a choice of what you do at work (based on specialization)?</p>