Graduate students receive financial support in the form of Teaching
(TA) and Research (RA) assistantships as well as tuition remission,
which covers the full cost of tuition. Teaching assistantships are
provided by departmental funds and carry a 10-month stipend, which
may be supplemented by a two-month summer research assistantship
stipend. Research assistantships are provided by individual faculty
from their active research grants. First year graduate students
usually serve as TAs and are involved in all aspects of teaching,
grading, and administering undergraduate laboratories and/or recitation
sections. In subsequent years, graduate students are generally full-time
RAs or split their time between RA and TA duties. The 12-month graduate
student stipend for academic year 2009 – 2010 is $24,500.
Several advanced graduate students also receive prestigious fellowship support from BCC’s industrial sponsors.
Students are encouraged to apply for external fellowships, such as the National Science Foundation and the National Physical Sciences Consortium.
