Graduate assistantships can provide financial support as well as professional experience for your future career.
Most graduate assistantships—whether teaching, research, or administration focused—are awarded on a competitive basis, with academic merit being the primary consideration.
Typically, these assistantships are awarded by individual graduate programs and research faculty members or centers, but many administrative offices on campus also hire graduate assistants.
How to Find Assistantships
Contact your graduate coordinator directly to find out about teaching and research assistantships available in your program of study.
To find out about assistantships outside of your graduate program:
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Contact individual offices and research centers on campus
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Follow the for GA Opening announcements
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Check out postings on the .
Important Guidelines & Policies
Graduate assistantships—including Graduate Teaching Assistantships (GTA), Graduate Research Assistantships (GRA), and Graduate Assistantships (GA)—are governed by policies outlined in the .
Individual graduate programs also have guidelines and resources available for GTAs, GRAs, and GAs. Contact your graduate coordinator for more information.