The School of Hard Knocks — sometimes known as life– is good at teaching a multitude of lessons. It stinks, though, at issuing degrees. The University of Kansas, however, is undertaking a multimillion ...

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Graduate assistantships are awards given to students who are working toward a master’s degree (or equivalent, i.e., 34 credit hours in the doctoral program), a Specialist in Education degree, or the ...

Okay, let’s talk grad school. Around three million Americans enroll in a graduate program each year, which is about a sixth of the number of Americans who enroll as undergraduates each year. There are ...

Graduate students can apply to four types of graduate awards given to recognize significant student achievement; to support unusual expenses associated with their master or dissertation research; and ...

Graduate school is an expensive proposition: The average cost of a two-year Master's degree is around $73,520, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, while a four-to-eight-year ...

Graduate Assistants: The term graduate assistant is used generically to cover all 4 types of graduate assistants: general graduate assistants, teaching assistants, graduate part-time instructors and ...

The Dance Program uses graduate student assistantships as the sole form of financial aid for graduate students. Most students receive one assistantship per semester. For this reason, applicants should ...

The Graduate Faculty consists of members of the academic faculty holding the rank of ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, or PROFESSOR (either instructional or tenure track (T/TT)) who have been ...

The 'One Big Beautiful Bill' reduces both the dollar amount and the types of federal student loans that many students can take out on or after July 1, 2026. In particular, it shrinks the types of ...

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