Introduction
How to Secure a Graduate Assistantship in the US or Canada: Imagine that you receive an admission offer from a university in the United States or Canada and then seeing the tuition bill.
Suddenly, the excitement can feel a little different.
Graduate school abroad can be expensive, especially when you add tuition, accommodation, food, insurance and other living costs. But there is another side of the story that many international students discover only after they start researching seriously:
“graduate assistantships”.
A teaching assistantship, research assistantship or graduate assistantship can provide financial support while giving you valuable academic and professional experience.
But getting one is not simply a matter of ticking a box on your university application.
In many cases, you have to position yourself as someone a professor or department would actually want to fund.
Here is how you can approach it.