Math PhD career track

[Iglooo]

The bigger problem with the PhD stipends is the uncertainty at places like UCB. The public schools are broke while the top private schools have secure funding and can pay much larger amounts over 30k.

I wouldn’t really know except I would think some of that is spelled out in the offer, often three years guaranteed funding, etc. It’s not like they can cut TAs. They need them to teach. Once you start doing research hopefully well before three years are up, funding should come from your advisor’s grant not from the university. Soft money on the other hand will depend on the university budget. Stellar programs have well funded faculty.