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Industrial Engineering: University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering

Graduate Financial Support

It is our department's policy to provide graduate assistantships to as many students as possible. However, admission to the graduate program does not imply the granting of financial aid. An applicant interested in obtaining financial aid should request information directly from the department. These awards are highly competitive and are given only on the basis of merit.

The terms and conditions are specified when the department makes an award for financial support.

For full consideration, please apply early for financial support and in no case later than January 15.

Special Information for International Applicants

If you are an international applicant with an outstanding record and you wish to apply to the doctoral program, we will be happy to consider you for an assistantship. However, you must keep in mind that these awards are very few in number and highly competitive.

It is also impossible for faculty members or administrators in the department to provide you in advance with any kind of meaningful estimate of your chances of getting an assistantship, since this depends on a number of factors including the competition, the projected availability of funds and the specific needs of the department.

Financial support comes from the department, not individual faculty. All decisions on assistantships are made centrally by a departmental committee once all pieces of your application have been received. Individual faculty members DO NOT make assistantship offers; therefore, if you are an applicant to the graduate program we request that you NOT send e-mail to individual faculty members asking whether they will consider supporting you.

** Barring unforeseen circumstances, students who are awarded financial support and who do well in the Graduate Program, will have their financial support continued as long as they maintain their level of academic excellence and make satisfactory progress towards their degree objectives. **

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