Department of Mathematics and Statistics Graduate Studies

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics awards teaching assistantships with a significant stipend (currently about $7,000 per year) for qualified graduate students. The duties of a teaching assistant normally require 10 to 15 hours per week and consist of teaching a section of an introductory mathematics course (valuable classroom experience to a future teacher!) and/or staffing the computer lab. Assistantships are usually renewed for the second year as long as the student is making reasonable progress toward graduation and maintains a 3.0 GPA.

Teaching assistants share offices adjacent to faculty offices. All offices include networked computers, and additional computers with a host of mathematics educational and research software are located in the department's computer lab.

For full consideration for a teaching assistantship in the fall of a given year, applications should be received by March 31st. Please fill out the following form and return it to the graduate coordinator of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics: Teaching assistantship application (PDF)

Note that before you apply for an assistantship, you must apply for admittance to the MSU graduate program.

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR

GRADUATE STUDENTS