Overview of Financial Aid offered by ICS

The ICS department offers teaching assistantships, research assistantships, and tuition waivers.

Both assistantships require duties involving approximately 20 hours of work per week. Both assistantships include tuition waiver. Teaching assistants work under the supervision of a faculty member and assist with instruction. Research assistants work on extramurally funded research projects under the supervision of a faculty member.

The department offers a limited number of assistantships each semester, and most are teaching assistantships. Teaching assistantships are awarded to those applicants who can best support the instructional program. These applicants typically have an undergraduate degree in computer science and a good command of English, equivalent to a TOEFL score of 600. See also more details about TA-ships.

Research assistantships are awarded to those applicants who can best assist faculty with their research projects. See also more details about RA-ships.

Graduate students who do not obtain teaching or research assistants may be eligible for partial financial aid in the form of a tuition waiver. Prior to submitting a tuition waiver application form, foreign applicants must send TOEFL scores and documentation of financial support for expenses other than tuition to the Graduate Division admissions office. See also more details about Tuition Waivers.