Statistics

Financial Aid for Graduate Students

The department has several sources of funding for graduate students. Students may be funded by:

• Graduate Teaching Assistantships (TAs)
• Graduate Research Assistantships (RAs)
• Graduate Industrial Traineeships (GITs)
• Graduate Fellowships (GFs)

Graduate Teaching Assistantships

The main function of the teaching assistant is to help the faculty with the teaching program. Half-time teaching assistant appointments carry responsibilities that require about 20 hours per week and run up to nine months, from mid-August through mid-May. Typically teaching assistants will be assigned to grade papers and provide tutorial assistance to students for one or more courses. Students with sufficient training in Statistics and fluency in English may be asked to serve as a lab instructor or as an instructor for a section of an undergraduate course. A TA is appointed in Statistics department and

• (a) directly participates in the teaching mission of the department as instructor of record, lab instructor, recitation leader, lab or lecture assistant, or who has responsibilities in direct support of classroom instruction in the department, such as setting up labs or working in an instructional computer lab; or
• (b) provides general support to the teaching mission of the department.