Biochemistry Graduate Student Stipends for 2012-2013
M.Sc. students
Domestic Students
$17,000 living allowance plus tuition ($7,160.00) and incidental fees ($1,241.52) = $25,401.52
International Students
$17,000 living allowance plus tuition ($16,886.00) and incidental fees ($1,241.52) AND UHIP ($684.00) = $35,811.52
Ph.D. students
Domestic Students
$19,000 living allowance plus tuition ($7,160.00) and incidental fees ($1,241.52) = $27,401.52
International Students
$19,000 living allowance plus tuition ($16,886.00) and incidental fees ($1,241.52) AND UHIP ($684.00) = $37,811.52
(UHIP is the University Health Insurance Plan)
My graduate student stipend in 1968 was $3000, which is $19,500 in 2012 dollars. I don't remember how much tuition and the health plan cost. We lived in subsidized housing, The rent was $56 per month.
We have about 140 graduate students in our department. Many of them are in the photo along with several much older "students" who earn a lot more money.
5 comments :
Why do you write "fee's"?
Just as Greek writes sigma as σ in the middle of a word, and as ς at the end of a word, it's getting so people are using s and 's respectively.
I didn't write "fee's," I copied it from an email message and didn't notice the typo.
I appreciate it when people notice spelling mistakes and typos in my posts but I'd prefer if you just draw my attention to a typo rather than imply that I don't understand fundamental English grammar and spelling conventions.
I expect that the text you had copied was written by somebody younger than either of us, and I was making the observation that—for some people—conventions are changing, that the 's was intentional, and not viewed as a typo by the original writer.
The Biochemistry Department at the University of Toronto pays its graduate students a stipend plus tuition? Is that right?
My experience as a graduate student at other Canadian universities has not included that feature. As a M.Sc. student at Simon Fraser University (Department of Biological Sciences), I was paid approximately $18,000 / year, and had to pay tuition (around $3000, if I remember correctly) out of that. At the University of Guelph as a PhD student (Department of Integrative Biology) I was paid a little more (somewhere around $21,000) and again paid tuition out of that. Now I'm at the University of Saskatchewan (Department of Soil Science), where I started at $20,000 (paying about $3000 in tuition) but I was fortunate enough to be awarded an NSERC CGS-D scholarship, so I am currently paid by NSERC $35,000 plus $3000 to cover tuition (actual tuition + other fees each year runs to around $4500).
I'm curious how many science departments across Canada completely or partially cover the tuition costs for their graduate students, and under what circumstances - my $3000 / year "tuition cover" is only because I am receiving a Tri-Council award.
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