Financial Aid
For each year’s incoming class of 12-15 students, the MTSC program has six graduate assistantships. Five of these assistantships are teaching positions, the sixth is a computer laboratory assistantship. These assistantships normally last three semesters and are awarded on a competitive basis. You may not hold an assistantship while performing your internship.
During their first semester in the program, most students holding MTSC assistantships perform duties related to the teaching of Miami’s undergraduate technical writing and business writing courses during their second and third semesters of the program. In each semester, assistantship duties require an average of 20 hours a week. Throughout their work as graduate students, students work with a Faculty Mentor, who prepares them to become effective teachers and guides their teaching efforts. One assistantship is available each year for a student to oversee operation of the MTSC computer laboratory.
The program director also works to ensure that students not working for the MTSC program find assistantships elsewhere within the University. Students have found Assistantships in the MCIS department, King Library, Office of Residence Life, The Center for Chemical Education, and with other organizations affiliated with the University.
Assistantships include a stipend, a waiver of instructional fees, and, if applicable, a waiver of out-of-state tuition. Students holding assistantships pay half of the University’s general fee. If they enroll as full-time students in summer school for either classes or internship hours, they receive an additional $1,600 duty-free Summer Scholarship and exemption from the instructional fee and out-of-state tuition.
Other forms of financial assistance are also available in other departments across campus. Contact the MTSC Director, Jean Lutz or contact the Graduate School for more infromation regarding all type of financial assistance available.