Hey everyone @juillet @boneh3ad @AuraObscura @cosmicfish
I could not find the exact place where I saw it on UMich’s website because I talked to my adviser who told me this, but I found the smoking gun on CMU’s website (about same rank as UMich) and it says this about M.S. students:
“The MechE department at Carnegie Mellon does not offer financial assistance of any kind to M.S. students.
All M.S. students are self-funded or externally funded. Some M.S. students work as Course Assistants (CA).
The Department will notify M.S. students when CA positions are available – this typically occurs
immediately before each semester. In rare instances, M.S. students secure Research Assistantships (RA).
RA’s are offered by a student’s research advisor, not the Departmen”
What do you think?