Graduate Assistantships and Cost of Study
Several graduate student assistantships within the IAS are
made available each year to qualified students in the Atmospheric Sciences and
related topic areas. These assistantships are funded through grants and/or
contracts held by IAS investigators. The annual student stipends for these
assistantships are currently (for the academic year beginning in Fall 2010) set
at approximately $21,000 for MS students and $22,398 for PhD students.
Assistantship stipends are projected to increase by about five percent per year.
These research assistantships also include partial payment toward tuition. All
tuition and fees in excess of those provided in the assistantship are the
responsibility of the student.
Most graduate assistantships are based on half-time commitment
(20 hours/week) during the school year, and full time commitment for three
months (40 hours/week) during the summer. Activities to be carried out by a
research assistant are assigned and monitored by the principal investigator. In
order to qualify for the partial tuition payment, students must carry 9 credit
hours during the school year and 6 credit hours during the summer. This
requirement is reduced after a student has fulfilled all coursework
requirements.
Full-time students pay campus fees1 which average about $1160.00
per semester (based on 9 credit hours). Graduate research assistants pay those
fees and, in addition, are assessed tuition at the special rate of $41.75 per
credit hour. Any graduate research assistant earning more than $2,710 or more
per semester and full-time (normally 9 or more credit hours) qualifies for this
special tuition rate. Students who are not graduate research assistants must pay
the regular graduate course tuition rate of $151.30 per credit hour for
residents of South Dakota or $320.25 per credit hour for non-resident students.
The Atmospheric Sciences Master of Science Program is included in the
Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) Western Regional
Graduate Program (WRGP). Students who are residents from any of the cooperating
states (Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New
Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming)
may enroll in the SDSM&T Atmospheric Sciences program at in-state rates ($139.10 per credit hour).
Download and search the current SDSM&T catalog
for tuition and fees information (FY11 rates).
For additional information, you may contact:
Chairman, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
501 East Saint Joseph Street
Rapid City, South Dakota 57701-3995
Phone: (605)394-2291
FAX: (605)394-6061
E-mail: william.capehart@sdsmt.edu
or Program Assistant Pam Cox at pam.cox@sdsmt.edu
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