Financing A Graduate Education PDF Download

In 2007-08, about 3 million students were enrolled in graduate or first-professional degree programs in the United States. These students exhibited wide variation both demographically and in the types of programs and institutions they attended. They pursued degrees in all types of fields, from the physical and life sciences to the arts and humanities to law and medicine. Some worked while they were enrolled while others did not. How these students financed their graduate studies in 2007-08 is the focus of these Web Tables, which are divided into three sections: The tables in Section 1 include the types of financial aid received by graduate and first-professional students, shown by students' enrollment and demographic characteristics. This section includes the percentages of graduate students who received grants, loans, assistantships, or other types of aid and the average amounts they received. Tables in Section 2 show the percentage of graduate and first-professional students who received aid from federal, state, institutional, or private sources, along with the average amounts received from each source. These are also shown by enrollment and demographic characteristics. The tables in Section 3 are dedicated to employment among graduate students. The percentage of graduate and first-professional students who worked while enrolled, average hours worked per week, and the role in which students saw themselves (i.e., as students who work to meet expenses or as employees who study) are explored in this section. The estimates presented in these tables were generated from the 2007-08 National Postsecondary Student Aid Survey (NPSAS:08), a comprehensive, nationally representative survey of how students finance their postsecondary education conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). NPSAS also includes a broad array of demographic and enrollment characteristics. A glossary is included. (Contains 3 endnotes and 64 tables.).