Registrar's Office

Graduate Student Summer Tuition Subsidy

This subsidy plan has been developed to reduce the cost of a graduate student to a research grant and improve the quality of faculty life. It is not intended to enable growth in the size of graduate programs or lengthen the time to a degree.

Graduate students who are enrolled in a research degree program and who are not taking courses will have their summer tuition subsidized (that is, paid from other Institute sources). Candidates for professional degrees will be charged tuition if registered for the summer.

The following rules apply:

• New graduate students or continuing graduate students in normal resident status during the preceding spring term who register only for thesis or pre-thesis research credit in the summer term will be eligible for a tuition subsidy from Institute general funds. Each department may create and use a special pre-thesis research subject that will be recognized by the Registrar as eligible for the subsidy. In Physics, for example, the existing subjects 8.391 or 8.392 ("Special Problems in Physics") might be extended into the summer.

• Effective with summer 2000, graduate students who register for any summer subject other than those recognized by the Registrar as thesis or pre-thesis research subjects will be charged tuition on a per unit basis up to the maximum tuition. Tuition for such subjects may not be charged to research grants.

• Graduate students registered in M.Eng. (except those in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science), M.B.A., or other professional programs will pay tuition at the rate established for their particular programs. Those programs, as established by the Graduate Students Office, are: MBA, LFM, SDM, M. Eng. (except EE/CS), Chemical Engineering Practice, CRE, CAES, SM12 Geosystems.