<p>i’m paying full tuition for grad school at stanford :o</p>
<p>For grad school, especially for engineering majors, you have many chances to get RA, TA, or PA positions at large state schools like Cal, Michigan or Wisconsin. A lot of international students can only come here for graduate study by obtaining those assistantships, and many times this is the only way to get you through the graduate school, not using your own money.</p>
<p>Are some of you using “grad school” to mean “professional school”? </p>
<p>[Graduate</a> school - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduate_school]Graduate”>Postgraduate education - Wikipedia) </p>
<p>[Professional</a> school - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_school]Professional”>Professional development - Wikipedia) </p>
<p>Both are postgraduate education, but they tend to have different trade-offs of costs and benefits.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure we are. If you’re in graduate school, not med or law school, there’s something wrong if you rack up 150k in debt. Med and law and other professional schools cost craptons of money, but when i go for a doctorate in computer science, i’ll be getting paid a stipend.</p>
<p>Yokrn, a professional school is a graduate school, not all graduate schools are professional schools.</p>