Graduate Student Support

Department's guaranteed stipend:

Master: $17,300 per yr or $1441.67 per month

Ph.D.: $19,700 per yr or $1641.67 per month

New incoming graduate students are automatically assigned TA positions for the first two terms.

By March 15, incoming graduate students should have found a supervisor. At such time, the supervisor will decide on how to support the student. Support may be in the form of Graduate Research Assistants (GRA) or Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTA). GRAs are charged to the supervisor's research grant and GTAs are charged to the dept'l grant. As the GTA salary is below the department's guaranteed salary, the research supervisor is responsible to pay the difference.

-- Joyce Poon - 28 Apr 2005

Advising Tips

• GradTravelAwards

Procedures for starting out with a student

• Students are told by Joyce that they need to find a supervisor by March 15.
• Students have a tuition waiver deadline that they'll ask you about around April 1. This appears to be a soft deadline. According to Joyce, the real deadline for letting her know what grant you're putting them on is ~ April 8.
• You can start students on one grant and then transfer them (and take the money out retroactively) from another grant. This is particularly relevant since students need to have their appointments settled before the money from new grants for NSERC are available. It is reportedly easiest to change them over if you let them know about it right when the money becomes available.

-- RachelPottinger - 11 Apr 2005