Question: In a year or two, I will have my bachelor's degree in biology and/or neuroscience. With doing that, I may have some accumulated debt. My next step (even while having debt) would be going for the master's degree. I have heard and read that people can often have their master's tuition waived. How often does something like that happen? Why does something like that happen? What is the best way for a person to have tuition waived at the master's level? Is it about grades? Is it about previous research experience in the topic or with a certain professor? And if I were to get a bachelor's from one school and try to go to a different school, or even an out-of-state school, could my tuition be waived? Would the out-of-state tuition be waived? Would any part of out-of-state tuition be waived when going for a master's degree.
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Answer: My school offers a graduate assistant program. What you do as a graduate student is you work closely with an organization (say Greek life or student conduct) in conducting research or just plain helping them out. They pay 90% of your tuition and give you a $1200 a month stipend. So maybe your school has something like that? You won't be able to get the tuition "waived" insomuch as paid for by an outside source, scholarships, or grants. But grades or prior experience alone will not get it waived.
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