Graduate Assistantships Help Pay For Smith School MBAs

Looking for ways to pay for your full-time MBA degree at the Robert H. Smith School of Business? Teaching assistantships are available to full-time, academically qualified students who are willing to work in exchange for tuition.

Teaching assistantships and graduate assistantships allow participants to develop their skills in technology, communications, business research, teaching, small business counseling, and project management, while receiving a partial tuition waiver, a stipend for 180 hours of work per semester, and also pay the equivalent of in-state tuition rates.

Andrew Kneale, a second year Smith MBA, wrote about his teaching assistantship experience in the Smith School student blog. He worked in Smith’s Marketing and Communications office (Marcomm) with Alissa Arford, Smith’s Director of Online Strategy, for about 10-12 hours a week during each of his two years.

Here’s what Andrew had to say about his Assistantships responsibilities:

“My main responsibilities as a GA in the MarComs office have been writing news stories for Smith’s website, conducting market research for new initiatives, helping to produce videos, and contributing to this blog (!) The video production has been particularly fun. While I had previously commissioned video pieces in jobs prior to business school, I hadn’t actually been part of the video-making process. These past couple of years I’ve had the opportunity to storyboard, get behind the camera, and capture the shots that we needed.”

MBA students not awarded graduate assistantships through the Smith school may apply for an Graduate Assistantship (GA) throughout the University of Maryland at College Park. GA positions are handled independently by each department throughout the university, therefore, students are encouraged to contact departments directly.

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