Graduate assistants are assigned up to 20 hours of work per week, scheduled around their classes. While working, in a very busy but friendly atmosphere, they learn a great deal since they assist literally hundreds of students with lab assignments. Work assignments may also engage them in training and instructional materials development, project research and work with Clemson's ongoing industrial training program.

The benefits of a graduate assistantship are many. In addition to having keys and access to the entire laboratory facility, graduate assistants at Clemson pay no out-of-state tuition. They pay only one-half the normal rate for in-state graduate students. Also, graduate assistants receive a salary for the hours worked. Perhaps as great a benefit as the financial incentives is the experience gained through working in a laboratory environment. Because graduate assistants are functioning as lab assistants, they become very familiar with equipment and processes employed. This expanded knowledge is a major benefit of the program.

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Date last updated: March 22, 2001.