More than 3,000 assistantships are available to qualified graduate students at Michigan State University. The University is concerned with both the quality of educational experience that graduate assistants receive and for teaching assistants, the quality of instruction they provide undergraduates.
Graduate assistants have many responsibilities as instructors and as students.
Graduate assistants are enrolled students whose primary association with MSU is directed toward advanced degree completion. Satisfactory progress toward earning a degree is a condition of maintaining the assistantship. Departments may limit the number of years that a graduate student may hold an assistantship. Although the following information outlines University policy, graduate assistants are responsible for knowing the specific policies and procedures that govern their particular assistantship and academic program. Prerequisites Graduate assistantships are available only to graduate students who are in good standing and actively pursuing degree programs.