<p>Grad expected costs for MIT in 9 months is 63,000 and tuition is about 40,000. What percent of the graduate students are a research assistant or teaching assistant? And how many of those get their full tuition waived? Can you teach and do research? Will you get a larger assistantship by doing so? And does being an international student make a difference (most importantly getting the full tuition waived)?</p>
<p>This depends on the department – each department at MIT funds its students differently.</p>
<p>Most of the PhD programs are fully funded, so if you’re looking to do a PhD, you will have an assistantship or fellowship of some sort and likely a stipend. The stipend also varies by department; engineering departments have been giving stipends around $20,000 in the past few years, while some of the science departments (biology in particular) are closer to $30,000.</p>
<p>thanks for your input molliebatmit. I am majoring in mechanical engineering…are those numbers true for international students and close to true for masters. Stipends are not that much for a MS is it?</p>