Guide to newbie international applicant please

BrownParent
Sat, 29 Aug 2015 05:08:24 +0000

I think you are going to have to do a lot of the legwork yourself.

For MS degrees, the vast majority of student are self pay and don’t get grants, and that includes domestic students. They and their families pay or they work for an employer who has tuition reimbursement or just finances MS. They can get some financing through federal student loans which international students can’t get. PhD is different, as most PhD programs have a tuition waiver as well as a stipend for being a teaching or research assistant.

So for MS you would need to find the universities that may give some assistance
a) because you are a very attractive candidate compared to the pool they have
b) because they always need teaching assistants and they can give you some consideration, you have good TOEFL scores, maybe TA or tutoring experience
c) you have research experience and may get asked to work with a prof

Good luck. There is a grad forum here but I doubt they will know, also an international student forum. you can try thegradcafe but I bet there are forums for international students somewhere.