In addition, each research lab has specialized computer facilities. Financial Aid Financial assistance is available through fellowships, teaching assistantships, and research assistantships, which provide varying stipends to help defray living expenses, and through tuition scholarships that range from partial to full support. Additionally, loans and assistance for students and their spouses in securing employment are available. International students are required to register for a minimum of 9 credits or the equivalent per semester. Living and Housing Costs Housing is available for graduate students in IIT residence halls.
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Student Group IIT's total enrollment in 1998-99 was approximately 5,900. Chemical and environmental engineering graduate students numbered 212. More than 40 percent of these students were full-time, and 22 percent were women. Location IIT's Main Campus is located near the heart of Chicago, just 3 miles south of the Loop and central to the greater Chicago area's thriving technological community of business, industry, and research institutions. Internationally known for its architecture, museums, symphony and theater, and beautiful lakefront on the western shore of Lake Michigan and the unusually rich variety of its ethnic communities, Chicago offers a vast array of recreational and cultural opportunities.