Assistantships vs Scholarships; what you need to know.

 

Assistantship simply means a paid academic appointment made to a graduate student that involves part-time teaching or research.

A scholarship is a grant or payment made to support a student's education, awarded based on academic or other achievements.

With this definition, I hope you can see that there is not much difference between the two.

On Assistantships.

When applying to US schools, that is what you want to get. It is technically the scholarship you're looking for.

They come majorly in two forms:

1. Teaching Assistantship

2. Research Assistantship

There are other forms of Assistantships that are not so common, but these two are the most popular ones.

As a Teaching Assistant, you have a teaching responsibility that you must fulfill. Usually, you teach undergraduate students, and/or grade their homework and exams. Your work is 20hrs per week on the max.

As a Research Assistant, you're fully devoted to research. More like you're employed to work in the lab. Of course, the research work is still your research work for your graduate study or for the group you belong to.

The monthly stipend you're paid either as TA (Teaching Assistant) or RA (Research Assistant) is actually for the work you do. It's not free money.

Your tuition fee and health insurance (not in all cases) are also waived by the University if you win a TA or RA.

Canada and other high-income countries do not usually use the term Assistantship. Often, it is a scholarship funded by a supervisor, an external organization, or the school itself.

Whichever way this may come, it usually would cover these three things:

📌Tuition

📌Living expenses

📌Health insurance (full or in part)

Some scholarships go to the extent of covering visa fees, flight fees, and living expenses for dependents.

To win any of these scholarships or Assistantships, you must know how to prepare an outstanding application package. And this is what we do at Vantage Migration.

We teach graduate students how to secure admissions and scholarships to fund their education abroad.

To learn how to apply for these forms of scholarship and win them as an international student, attend our FREE webinar today. Everything you need to get started is there.

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