[Data Update]: UMD summer stipend update
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Institution name: University of Maryland - College Park
- This updates an existing institution.
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Annual Stipend Amount (USD, both Pre-Qualification and Post-Qualification if different): pre-qual: 40527; post-qual: 43528
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Source of the stipend and fee data (e.g., your own data point, a link to an official website, etc.):
This data is from an official email from the department chair, Matthias Zwicker. According to the report, the department had 142 summer GRAs in 2022, where 26 of them are employed for 20h/week, 26 for 30h/week, and 90 for 40h/week. As a result, 80% of students enrolled in the summer get at least 30h/week GRA appointments.
The email is attached below:
FY23 GA RATES COMP SCI_11-1-22_COLA_Final.pdf
UMD2022.pdf
Website updated.
The denominator is off---I believe our department has around 350 total PhDs. This doesn't include shares of students who were unfunded. We just ran an internal survey showing that one in four PhDs are unfunded for at least one summer. Half of PhDs also take internships, and the majority of them reported they that department funding was not readily available otherwise.
We don't count students going for internships as "enrolled" in the summer. As a result, for the summer funding, the total number is 142, unless the department chair excludes students who stayed in the department but didn't get paid.
The department chair excludes students who stayed in the department but didn't get paid
Right, I believe that's what's happening. They aren't on payroll so I don't think the department has the data. Here's results from our internal survey (120 responses from PhDs):
| Status | Summers | Pct. |
|---|---|---|
| No funding | 38 | 13% |
| 20 hr/wk GA | 37 | 13% |
| 30 hr/wk GA | 6 | 2% |
| 40 hr/wk GA | 103 | 36% |
| Internship / external | 93 | 32% |
| Multi-year fellowship | 12 | 4% |
| Total | 289 | 100% |
Is this for the current summer?
Can you upload redacted raw data here?
I didn't ask for consent to share publicly when collecting the data, so I'm afraid I can't (in principle you could de-anonymize some individuals based on their funding history). I am happy to provide other summary statistics, or maybe there's a way to fully obscure individual-level data,...will have to think on it
This data is across all summers, but I can get it for the most recent summer (not immediately). The weighted average appointment seems to be 27 hours based on the historical data, if excluding summers with external funding (I don't think that's entirely fair, because the existence of department funding has an obvious causal effect on the choice to do an internship, but I do appreciate it is difficult to measure).
We can put an official survey on our website if you want (actually, we prefer doing that). Do you think it's possible to publish the raw data if we only collect data for the upcoming summer or summer 2022?
For summers, we do not count students doing internships and students who do not do research for personal reasons. However, I think we should count students under fellowships.
Once you have the data we can use the minimum stipend for at least 80% of students.
May I ask how much the after-tax stipend will be? Thanks!
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