FAQ - Financial Support

What is an estimated total cost for one year of study at UCSD?

The Graduate Division publishes updated tuition and fee costs each year. 

What kind of financial support is available to ECE Ph.D. students?

Financial support is available to students in the Ph.D. program in the form of fellowships, research assistantships, and teaching assistantships. The department attempts to support all full-time graduate students at the Ph.D. level. The most common form of support is a half-time research assistantship that provides a salary, plus fees and tuition (where applicable). For more information, please visit our FellowshipsGraduate Student Researcher and Teaching Assistant webpages.

Do you provide financial support to M.S. students?

Unfortunately, there is little support opportunity for M.S. students. Research Assistantships and Teaching Assistantships are reserved for continuing Ph.D. students, and they are therefore quite rare and very competitive for M.S. students.  M.S. students should not expect to be supported by either Research Assistantships or Teaching Assistantships.