No TAL is carried into the next fiscal year. Minimum salary rates for Graduate Student Research Assistantships and Postdoctoral Research Affiliates are established each year by the Associate Dean of Research, and listed in Graduate Student Assistantship Supplement . International students receiving compensation must have on file a correctly completed I-9 form prior to commencement of work. Questions about expired passports or employment authorization should be referred to the Bechtel International Center, although final decisions are made by the student's department. While on Stanford Support Financial awards that provide tuition and a stipend are given so that students may work exclusively on their studies.
Concurrent employment is limited to eight hours per week.
Exceptions, which are rarely made, must be approved by the department. Several loans are available to graduate students at Stanford. Loans are intended to help cover the costs of graduate study. They may be used to cover basic living expenses of the student and his or her dependents and reasonable dissertation expenses. However, expenses such as consumer debt, moving expenses, car payments or automobile insurance for amounts in excess of the Stanford budgeted transportation allowance, computer expenses, or job search costs are NOT allowable additions to the cost of education.