July 26, 2002

60% of Ph.D. Students Said to Get Assistantships

By SCOTT SMALLWOOD

More than 60 percent of doctoral students have paid assistantships, with students in engineering and the sciences getting the largest awards, according to a U.S. Education Department report.

"Student Financing of Graduate and First-Professional Education, 1999-2000," which uses data from the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study, contains a wide range of data on teaching and research assistantships.

Full-time Ph.D. students with assistantships received $12,837 per year, on

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