The Department of Communication has a number of opportunities for Graduate Teaching Assistantships and Research Assistantships each year. Teaching Assistants generally help with undergraduate courses in the department, teaching sections or labs under close faculty supervision. Research assistants also work under close faculty supervision. If you are admitted to the M.S. or Ph.D. program, you will be considered for one of these assistantships. Money from numerous fellowships and other sources is allocated on a competitive basis.
Loans are also available.
To find out about other sources of financial aid, contact the Graduate School directly. Graduate studies at Cornell At Cornell, graduate students do not join a department. They enroll in Cornell's Graduate School and affiliate with one of the school's 94 major fields. The Graduate Field of Communication is one of these. The Graduate School, one of eleven units on the Ithaca campus, enrolls about 3,700 students.