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re: NCAA Eligibility of graduate student atheletes.
Posted on 7/25/11 at 5:14 pm to DocBugbear
Posted on 7/25/11 at 5:14 pm to DocBugbear
With the exception of MBA's, JD's, and MD's almost all graduate students are funded; that is, they get a scholarship for tuition and a stipend as a GRA or GTA. Each department only has so many GRA or GTA lines. If an extra grad student shows up in a particular department that does not reguire departmental funding, they would be welcomed because they would increse the department's number of grad students. Graduate classes usually require 5 students to "make", therefor extra student are helpful to a department.
The class load for grad students is usually 2-4 classes per semester and research projects could often be scheduled for off-season and summer. They could handle the workload.
I don't see why transfer stuents would be a problem. It's just different to what were used to.
I would be quite a change, though.
90% of the impact would be in the less popular sports.
The class load for grad students is usually 2-4 classes per semester and research projects could often be scheduled for off-season and summer. They could handle the workload.
I don't see why transfer stuents would be a problem. It's just different to what were used to.
I would be quite a change, though.
90% of the impact would be in the less popular sports.
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Posted on 7/25/11 at 6:12 pm to TxRngr59
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With the exception of MBA's, JD's, and MD's almost all graduate students are funded; that is, they get a scholarship for tuition and a stipend as a GRA or GTA. Each department only has so many GRA or GTA lines. If an extra grad student shows up in a particular department that does not reguire departmental funding, they would be welcomed because they would increse the department's number of grad students. Graduate classes usually require 5 students to "make", therefor extra student are helpful to a department.
The class load for grad students is usually 2-4 classes per semester and research projects could often be scheduled for off-season and summer. They could handle the workload.
Keep in mind that to a large extent much of the research the GRAs are being paid to do is what they will write their dissertation/thesis on. Someone playing sports will have to put this time in anyway. Furthermore, I don't know what field you are in, but when I was in grad school the profs really didn't understand the concept of free time and research was/is a year round endeavor. A GRA means that they pay you for 20 hours of work each week so that you can survive while you are putting in 40-60 hours of work each week. IDK... maybe it's different in other fields.
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