General Information

• Physics Department doctoral guide
• Institute resources
  • MIT Office of Graduate Education
  • MIT incoming student resources
  • MIT complete student resources list
• General financial/payments website: Atlas

Graduate Funding and Appointments

• General information about appointments
  • Doctoral guide – contains info about graduate financial support
  • How teaching assistantships are allocated
  • Stipends
    • Stipend rates. In the past few years, the physics department has set the stipend at the Science & Engineering Contact TA rate for all physics students, regardless of appointment type (TA, RA, internal/external fellowship)
    • Student extended insurance plan historically included
  • Childbirth accommodation and family resources (including subsidized backup childcare)
• Fellowships
  • MIT Office of Graduate Education fellowship guide
  • Physics department incentive program for external fellowships
• Additional/outside employment
  • Additional/outside employment policy. If eligible:
    • Physics courses sometimes need extra graders; these positions, called 10% or 20% TA’s, give you that much extra monthly salary
    • One-off opportunities to help grade exams each pay $20/hour as of 2019-2020 school year; opportunities emailed to 8-grad
  • Physics department policy on research externships
  • MIT graduate community fellows
  • Undergraduate residence hall GRAs/GRTs

Advising Expectations and Guidelines

• Physics department graduate advising guidelines
• Professor responsibilities to fellowship students
• MIT guide for graduate student appointments
• To get advice from outside the department, contact OGE GradSupport