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Financial aid prospects: We have Graduate School fellowships, teaching assistantships (TA) and research assistantships (RA) available to PhD students. The top applicants will be nominated for a Graduate School Fellowship. This is a University-wide competition and every year we have some applicants who receive this fellowship. Those nominees who are not awarded a Fellowship will be offered a TA position. Applicants who are recommended for admission with financial aid will be notified if they will be awarded a teaching assistantship. These application files will also be made available to our faculty members who may contact you directly about a research assistantship with them. Not all of our admitted students will receive initial support, therefore, we urge you to give thought to how you are going to cover your financial expenses should you not receive a research or teaching assistantship the first semester. Additional information about TA positions in the Computer Science and Engineering Department can be found in the TA Handbook and at the TA Announcements Page.
We also encourage applicants to apply to external fellowships. Below are links to some programs that provide fellowships.
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering does not provide support for Master’s students therefore MS applicants must consider how they intend to finance their degree. Some MS students do get RA positions in their second semester or second year but only after demonstrating their ability to contribute to the research of a particular faculty member. If a student is interested in working with a particular faculty member, be advised to first talk with that professor, the other grad students in the research group and then request permission to sit in on research group meetings. You may then have an opportunity to demonstrate your research abilities and future funding can then be discussed. Sending unsolicited email to many faculty looking for support is absolutely the wrong thing to do and can actually hurt your chances of getting funding. If you wish to send emails, please target the appropriate faculty after reviewing their research projects and requesting permission to attend group meetings. Funding should never be requested in an initial email contact. Faculty from other departments consider unsolicited emails as "SPAM" and this reflects badly on you as well as the Department.
