Employment Policy
The Graduate School considers employment beyond a maximum full-time term assistantship of 20 hours per week incompatible with full-time graduate study.
If students and their departments judge that part-time employment is both manageable and necessary, however, the students may be employed either on campus or off campus (and wherever possible under the graduate Work-Study Program). These arrangements must be approved by the departmental director of graduate studies and the student's dissertation adviser.
If a teaching or research assistantship is offered by the student's department, it must be accepted rather than an off-campus position. If no teaching or research post is available, students may then apply on their own or through the Student Employment Service, third floor, Clio Hall, for employment of some other kind. International students are limited by U.S. federal regulations to 20 hours of employment while school is in session (this includes assistantship-in-instruction/research appointments and any on-campus work).
International students may not accept off-campus employment without authorization from either the Immigration and Naturalization Service or the J-1 program sponsor. International students should contact the international graduate student adviser at the Office of Visa Services, 120 Alexander Rd.