<p>Alright, so I'm a high school senior right now, but I'm trying to inquire about jobs on a college campus that can help pay for some of my tuition.</p>
<p>I don't mean working at the burger king in the dining hall lol; I mean jobs like being an R.A., the manager for a sports team, or a student secretary or something like that...</p>
<p>I really don't know how to word all of this correctly, but I hope you catch my drift lol..thanks</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of having your tuition reduced unless you’re a TA (generally reserved for grad students) or your parent works for the U. </p>
<p>Now if you mean reducing overall cost, the only one I know of is being some type of RA. It’s going to highly depend on your university and you need to ask them, not us.</p>
<p>You almost always can’t be an RA as a freshman, so that’s out.</p>
<p>You can get an on-campus job. You can work in your school’s library, at residence hall desks, admissions, etc.</p>
<p>It really depends on the college, but there aren’t really any that reduce your tuition. You can get paid by the hour like a normal job (which is what work study is anyways, btw), so that can reduce your cost of living or you can save up that money and apply it to books/tuition for the next semester.</p>
<p>I have to warn you, any on-campus job for students I’ve ever heard of (including work-study) doesn’t really help you earn a lot of money. The maximum hours for work-study is typically 20/week, but I never once saw a job at my school that offered more than 10, maybe 15 hours a week, at the most. Those jobs might give you a little extra spending money, but if you’re looking to help pay off a big tuition bill it won’t help much. If you’re looking to really make money and not just gain experience, I’d recommend mainly looking off-campus for jobs. </p>
<p>But who knows, this probably varies by school.</p>
<p>Some schools make a distinction between federal work-study and on-campus employment that isn’t need based. If you’re talking about the later, those type of jobs are normally found where a specific skills is needed (lifeguarding, tutoring, etc.) that probably couldn’t be met if the job was limited to federal work-study students. Check with your school’s financial-aid people.</p>
<p>Well, I can actually think of one scenario in which an on-campus job would actually cut tuition: some colleges let full-time employees take a limited number classes (e.g. half-time courseload) per semester for free. I know a former janitor who get a free BS in computer science that way (he was promoted to tech support half-way through), and several people who earned a Master’s degree on the side.</p>
<p>Most jobs on campus don’t deduct tuition, but help you pay off tuition. A job as an RA doesn’t typically help “deduct tuition” but instead provides “free” room & board (not really free as you work for it). I’ve had tons of on-campus jobs - at my school the max you can work on campus is technically 29 hours/week, but you can get around this max by getting an off-campus job (if you really need to). The easiest jobs to get on campus at my school are working in the dining halls, facilities (vacuuming the hallways), or as a desk receptionist for a residence hall. There are a ton of others - I was a professor’s research assistant, participant in a psychology research study, a research center department aide, an admin assistant for a research institute, a gov. affairs intern for my student government etc. You can get a job as an usher or in concessions for the performing arts/sports facilities, you can get a job with parking (either giving parking tickets, a parking booth attendant, or special events assistant), or get a job with the library. The student newspaper has a ton of jobs (low-pay, but paid nonetheless), the student government pays for certain positions, just about any on-campus office/research institute employs students for various positions. </p>
<p>Just about all of these jobs accept non-work-study students at least at my school. Certain jobs are “work-study preferred” but there are a ton more that don’t discriminate between students of any financial status. Just a warning - even working 20+ hours a week, your pay is likely to be between minimum wage and $10/hour if you are lucky. Don’t expect to be able to pay off tons of loans with a student job either; if you are paying for food/housing yourself even working 20 hours/week will barely cover your expenses.</p>
<p>Depending on the location of your school and your personal experience, you might be able to get an off-campus job in the vicinity of your school that pays significantly more than any on-campus job. The main draw-back of off-campus jobs is that they tend to be less flexible. Even if they are willing to work around your class schedule (otherwise you’d have to work your class schedule around your job), you probably would not get school breaks off.</p>
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RAs don’t get free room and board everywhere. At my undergraduate college, RAs were paid $2,000 a year (approx $8 an hour for an estimated 8 hours of work per week while school is in session) but room and board ran at $12,000.</p>
<p>^Yeah. At my school RA’s get half off of housing and a stipend of $4000… So that’s about $6000 they get per year. (Or they might get free housing, which would make it about $8000 a year, but I don’t remember.) Either way, it definitely varies from school to school.</p>
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<p>At my school, it is up to 30 hrs. It is minimum wage, but if you are working the full thirty, you could be making more than $200/week. That can help out a lot. </p>
<p>I work a job that pays more than minimum, and I was able to contribute 2k to my tuition this quarter (around 8k, I could have contributed 4k, but I am fortunate to have a mom that helps me out).</p>