By Carey O’Neil
OVERALL ASSISTANTSHIPS
The University of Georgia Graduate School keeps track of assistantships awarded to all University students.
Total funded graduate students: 3,318
All graduate students funded: 46%
Full-time graduate students funded: 74%
EXTERNALLY FUNDED ASSISTANTSHIPS*
The Graduate School doesn’t fund all assistantships – Most are funded through money left over in individual colleges’ budgets, and some are funded externally through outside grants and scholarships.
Total externally funded graduate students: 1,455
Students funded on external money: 44%
ADDITIONAL BENEFITS
There’s more to an assistantship than experience working alongside University professors.
- Waiver for all but $25 of tuition and student fees
- Health insurance coverage for 40 percent of premiums
- Monthly stipend of around $1,000
WHAT’S IT COST?
There’s no such thing as a free lunch, and for students on assistantships, there’s no such thing as free tuition and health coverage, either.
- Up to 20 hours of work per week as professors’ assistants
- Difficult application process
*Graduate school estimates
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Some good information here, but it's hard to tell what the story's goal is. People who don't already know what graduate assistants are and what they do will have a hard time making sense of these facts. The four headers don't have much of a relationship to one another, so the structure is confusing. As with traditional stories, you need to think of a focus and organize the information around that focus. A Q&A (What is a graduate assistantship? How is it funded? How many people participate?) might have been a clearer way to tell this story.
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