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Originally Posted by ryanfx
Hey guys -
I had a couple questions regarding graduate school, hopefully some of you might be able to give me some insight. Some grad schools I was looking into are VERY expensive (Carnegie Mellon) and are downright unaffordable unless I got 100% or near that of financial aid. Do graduate schools generally offer assistanceships like TAing or fellowships for people going for their masters that cover the complete cost of tuition? Any other ways of getting to go to grad school for free (besides the obvious applying for scholarships).
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Yes, they do.
I got my MS in CS from Villanova and they have two types of tuition reimbersments (this is an example, I don't know about CMU):
1.) Tuition Scholar, 20 hrs a week service for full tuition
2.) Graduate Assistant, 40 hrs a week service for full tuition and a stipend of around $1500 a month. You cannot hold another job while you do this or you will lose your ride.
You will be doing things like tutoring and grading if you are assigned to a professor. You may teach a few classes as well.
I did one semester as a TS and then got bumped up to a GA for the rest of it. You will have to have very good grades to get either of these- I graduated second in my class by 0.005 of a GPA point as an undergrad and I only got in as a TS first semester.