<p>Hello everyone,</p>
<p>I have been offered a full tuition scholarship + a graduate research assistant position with a stipend of $20,000 per year for MS in Electrical Engineering at University of Washington. I have no idea how much stipend do graduate schools give to TAs/RAs. Is $20,000 per year a good stipend in comparision to other graudate engineering programs? What would be the range for engineering RA stipends?</p>
<p>Sounds like your typical assistantship. Of course there are cost of living comparisons that can be made, but depending on your city you will make 18-25k per year as a graduate assistant on top of tuition remission.</p>
<p>That's about right. $20,000 is pretty average for a stipend. </p>
<p>A few things I would check before making a decision:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Does the package include tuition AND fees or just tuition (up to $3000 per year difference)</p></li>
<li><p>Does the package include health insurance (up to $1000 per year if you have to buy it on your own)</p></li>
<li><p>Does the package include travel funds (especially in WA, travelling to conferences can be thousands per year). </p></li>
</ol>
<p>Those are things I would figure out when comparing schools.</p>
<p>is this even possible ?
how can one receive stipend on master program
isn't that only exclusive for ph.d
you must have really good GPA</p>
<p>Some master's students receive stipends, especially in engineering. It's harder to get than if you were a PhD student, though. </p>
<p>Most of the time I've seen it happen, it's either because the MS student is expected to teach / TA, because the department wants the MS student to eventually go for a PhD, or because the MS student is doing some really important (i.e. grant) work.</p>
<p>SOME or usually and
what is grant work?
and reading your mind you want to say that department bind eng students to teach eventually and not let them work
and what are my chances to get funded at m/eng
compared to m/s if i have no research but good gre and gpa
since i am a int student and currently on my final year
thanks</p>
<p>For MS, it's "some". Definitely less than 50% - probably closer to 20% (of research-based MS's) at a research university (so a Top 15 or so engineering program).</p>
<p>Grants are sums of money given by the university, a business, or (most commonly) the US government for research in a certain topic. For instance, if the US needs new composite material for an aircraft, they'll give grants out to a few universities for research in the development of composite materials that meet certain criteria for their use. Since grants = money for a university, people who do research on topics for which the university has (or wants) a grant are more valuable (monetarily) than people who do other, non-funded research.</p>
<p>For a professional master's of engineering, your chance of funding is about zero. Funding for research is generally only given to researchers. When you take a class, that costs the university money, so why would they pay you on top of that? When you do research, you generate money, so it makes sense for them to give you a portion of your expected revenue creation.</p>
<p>The only way to get funding in that situation is for you to do some task that either generates cash or reduces cost (i.e. work for the school). An example would be grading exams for a professor, working in the administrative office as a secretary / record keeper, etc. However, those positions are highly competitive with thousands of undergrad and grad students seeking them. I would seek a position like that, but I wouldn't expect to ever find one.</p>
<p>Hello Everyone!</p>
<p>Yes, I have been offered Graduate Research Assistant postion with a stipend of $20,000 per year on top of tuition remission for MASTERS of SCIENCE in Electrical Engineering at University of Washington. I don't know much about how hard it is to get funding but most of the schools that I applied to have already offered me admission, and I have interviews during the first and second week of March for which they will pay airfare, transportation and lodging. Only after the interviews will they let me know of funding decisions. But I am very positive that they will offer me a TA/RA position. </p>
<p>My stats are as follows: </p>
<p>-International Student from India
-undergraduate degree in Math and Physics (graduating this June) from a small private college in Indiana, it is a tier 4 college I believe
-Majors GPA: 4.0/4.0
-Cum GPA: 3.75/4.0
-No research experiences at all since there are no research opportunities here
-Independent Research (completely on my own) with the help of a Physics professor for 3 credits last fall and 3 credits this spring semester (at least I got 6 credits for it)
-Tutored Calculus to students at my college since my sophomore year
-Physics Lab Assistant since junior year
-15 hours of community service every week since freshman year
-GRE: 400 V, 720 Q, 4.5 W
-Bunch of Mathematics and Physics awards throughout the college years including Sigma Xi</p>
<p>I know that my GRE scores are not that great, I have no research experience at all, and I come from a non-competitive school, however I was able to portray myself as someone who is passionate about electrical engineering, especially in electromagnetic properties of idealized materials. The professors at Univ of Washington told me that they were really impressed to see that I had made the best of the opportunities I had.</p>
<p>Now I am waiting to hear from University of Michigan. And I am confident that I'll get in there too since the guy who puts together the application folders for review already emailed me saying that I have a very good application with the perfect academic background for Electrical Engineering. I will let you all know as soon as I find out.</p>
<p>How good is your electrical eng application if you're a math/physics major? Did you take courses in EE?</p>
<p>Remember that a lot of fields overlap - as an example, MIT's Fusion and Plasma Science Center (I may have botched that name) takes NucE's, EE's, Math, and Physics, all doing more or less the same thing. OP indicated he was interested in the materials side, that runs heavily into the physics. Given the specialization of graduate study, he may not have to take additional EE courses at all.</p>
<p>DS got his (MS) stipend/fellowship award as a lump value, to be used within a certain time frame. If he finished early, he doesn't get the remainder. If he finished late, he doesn't get more. </p>
<p>$20,000 in Seattle is acceptable. If you are careful with housing and do without a car, you will do OK. </p>
<p>Congratulations on your achievement. DS may join UDub as a temp engineering staff.</p>