I heard that Ph.D. in US engineering universities are full tuition covered. Whose paying them, is it the professor or the school itself?

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I heard that Ph.D. in US engineering universities are full tuition covered. Whose paying them, is it the professor or the school itself?

It's not true. :/
Not unless you convinced someone to pay for you.

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I heard that Ph.D. in US engineering universities are full tuition covered. Whose paying them, is it the professor or the school itself?

It's not true. :/
Not unless you convinced someone to pay for you.

o.0 are you sure because they told me like once you get in, you're set. They'll support your education until you get your Ph.D.

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I heard that Ph.D. in US engineering universities are full tuition covered. Whose paying them, is it the professor or the school itself?

It's not true. :/
Not unless you convinced someone to pay for you.

o.0 are you sure because they told me like once you get in, you're set. They'll support your education until you get your Ph.D.

Certain private schools may do that, but public schools sure don't. Who is they?

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Certain private schools may do that

That's correct. The really rich scools pay all your tuitions and costs, but then getting selected there is also very hard.

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Certain private schools may do that

That's correct. The really rich scools pay all your tuitions and costs, but then getting selected there is also very hard.

Really? No I mean really?..I'm not doubting your answer but it's just people's been telling me about how their university give them full funding for Ph.D. in engineering.....just wondering if such a wonderful thing actually happens!

"They" are friends who got into colleges while I'm sitting in a damn cubicle screwing with numbers and data sheets.....

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Ask them the names of the Unis, and go to the website. Recently, some Unis have had to be shut down because of lack of funds, which is due to Financial Aid. So if it's a good Uni with solid financials, chances are they'll not reuqire you to pay much.

On an unrelated topic (don't want to double post), WTH is imfcPowerScheme!?!!

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Certain private schools may do that, but public schools sure don't.

I'm at a US public school and my funding is half fellowship (from my school) and half grant (so my adviser is funding me) plus some teaching to cover tuition. Funding is pretty much standard for STEM phd programs in the states. That being said, the funding is totally variable, so at some places you only get X number of years guaranteed, at other places you have to pay until you get a research assistant or teaching assistant position, and others work out even funkier arrangements. But yeah, usually not being offered any funding or opportunity of being funded is a sign that they don't want you all that much.

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Certain private schools may do that, but public schools sure don't.

I'm at a US public school and my funding is half fellowship (from my school) and half grant (so my adviser is funding me) plus some teaching to cover tuition. Funding is pretty much standard for STEM phd programs in the states. That being said, the funding is totally variable, so at some places you only get X number of years guaranteed, at other places you have to pay until you get a research assistant or teaching assistant position, and others work out even funkier arrangements. But yeah, usually not being offered any funding or opportunity of being funded is a sign that they don't want you all that much.

lol.....damn....you gotta love the US of A. Even though we are out there screwing other countries, it's a wonderful country for scholars, academics, and business entrepreneurs. 🤣

I guess that answers my question, thanks

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it's a wonderful country for scholars, academics, and business entrepreneurs

That's questionable, 'cause funding is getting cut across the board, but what's happening is that schools just aren't accepting as many people (or aren't accepting anyone), rather than accepting people and not funding them.

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it's a wonderful country for scholars, academics, and business entrepreneurs

A wonderful country for athletes who want to go to college for free you mean 🙄

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it's a wonderful country for scholars, academics, and business entrepreneurs

A wonderful country for athletes who want to go to college for free you mean 🙄

Well I mean obviously some of us have to stay behind while others succeed.
Otherwise, whose going to clean the toilet? The streets? Serving McDonalds?

I think Athletes has it hard as well. They have to keep up their performance, endure head injuries and spend time in practice. They probably have easier college courses and have plenty of pants to get into in a frat party....but...you know....it's a shitty way to live

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it's a wonderful country for scholars, academics, and business entrepreneurs

That's questionable, 'cause funding is getting cut across the board, but what's happening is that schools just aren't accepting as many people (or aren't accepting anyone), rather than accepting people and not funding them.

Does other countries have as much funded PhD students as the USA?

I was also told if they don't want to fund you, they won't even accept you, or they'll accept you as a master student and say: "We have no funding"

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If they want you, they fund you. If they don't want you, and want your money, they accept you without fundiing (only in Unis where the funding is not applicable to everyone - in some Unis, if you're selected, that means you get funding) or they plain don't select you.

US is a good country or students who want to pursue varying streams, as it is a sort of gathering ground. There are some Unis which are very very popular for certain streams, like AT&T, because of this fact. Otherwise, there are some countries which have Unis far mmore popular for their respective stream - case in point, no Uni beats IIT for UG Engineering.

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Certain private schools may do that

That's correct. The really rich scools pay all your tuitions and costs, but then getting selected there is also very hard.

I have a bit more information on this. Generally speaking, as a PhD student, they are going to offer you a way to become an employee of the school, which will get, at the very least, your tuition waved. This differs from degree to degree and university to university. An engineering student will obviously have much more funding than a psychology student.

What you do and how you get that funding also differs from school to school. But the options are usually there. You make work as a graduate student teacher or teaching assistant for another professor. If your advisor has a lot of funding from grants, then you may receive money for doing research. Some schools also offer other jobs on campus, that are often still research oriented, or have places near campus that are somewhat affiliated with the school and offer jobs to graduate students. For example, here at UCF, we have IST (the institute of simulation and technology), which is technically directly under the school but only does research and employees primarily graduate students. We also have a NAVAIR research center, which does military research for the military, which is walking distance from campus and employees a large number of graduate students as internships and co-ops.

Now, this won't necessarily pay for all of your expenses. But, if you are doing one of these, you will atleast have your tuition waved and make a little bit of money. You may still need to take out loans to make ends meet. Several graduate students I know also work at other colleges and universities in the area to make ends meet.

The key thing to remember here, is that you're not getting your tuition paid for free. You're still WORKING for it in almost all cases. It just happens that the school is usually paying for it, and you are usually working for the school in one way or another.

^ Akukame beat me to it. Definitely check the school to which you're applying.

In one way or another you will most definitely receive a "stipend" (gotta work for it) from the school by working as a grad student TA or if you're lucky, the PI has enough funding from grants so that you can just stick to research in the lab...