{"id":17400,"date":"2021-09-15T15:34:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T19:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/?page_id=17400"},"modified":"2024-05-31T09:32:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T13:32:08","slug":"financial-support-rsgs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/financial-support-rsgs\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial Support RSGS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Financial support for students in the MS in Remote Sensing &amp; Geospatial Sciences program is allotted based on need and merit, and on a first-come basis. <span>Financial assistance does not require a separate application and is decided as completed applications are received.<\/span> Partial tuition scholarships may be offered, and\/or some students are invited to serve as teaching assistants for undergraduate courses, at a stipend of $6,000 per semester. (Teaching assistants lead labs and discussion sections.)<\/p>\n<p>Occasionally, faculty hire Master\u2019s students to serve as research assistants, paid on an hourly basis; such opportunities depend on matching students\u2019 skills with faculty needs and are usually determined once a student has begun coursework.<\/p>\n<p>Full information about financial aid can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/current-students\/ma-and-ms-students\/financial-aid\/\">https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/current-students\/ma-and-ms-students\/financial-aid\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Full information about BU tuition costs can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/current-students\/ma-and-ms-students\/cost-of-attendance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/current-students\/ma-and-ms-students\/cost-of-attendance\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Competitive fellowship programs at BU include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bufellow\/\">http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bufellow\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/community\/graduate-summer-fellows\/\">http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/community\/graduate-summer-fellows\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2020\/03\/Graduate-external-scholarships.pdf\">http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2020\/03\/Graduate-external-scholarships.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bufellow\/resources\/student-resources\/\">https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bufellow\/resources\/student-resources\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>International students may also research available funding from home governments and agencies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/academics\/ms-remote-sensing-geospatial-sciences\/\">Back to the MS in Remote Sensing &amp; Geospatial Sciences<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financial support for students in the MS in Remote Sensing &amp; Geospatial Sciences program is allotted based on need and merit, and on a first-come basis. Financial assistance does not require a separate application and is decided as completed applications are received. Partial tuition scholarships may be offered, and\/or some students are invited to serve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12328,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":45,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17400"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20416,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17400\/revisions\/20416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}