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Financial Aspects and Job Opportunities
Financial Aspects
Excellent financial aid, in the form of fellowships
and research and teaching assistantships, is available to qualified applicants.
Fellowship programs that the Department is authorized to administer include
DOE fellowships in computational engineering, nuclear engineering, waste
management and fusion engineering; the Institute for Nuclear Power Operations
fellowships; and the School of Engineering's Dean's fellowship. GANN Fellowships
in Computational Science and NSF Traineeships in Computational Science
are also available to our graduate students.
Opportunities exist for graduate traineeships with
electric utility companies, national laboratories, and reactor vendors,
providing a combination of financial support and work experience during
graduate study. The Nuclear Engineering Graduate Traineeship Program,
leading to a Master of Nuclear Engineering degree in 15 months, currently
offers a stipend and covers full tuition and fees.
Department teaching fellows are selected by the faculty
from a pool of doctoral degree students who exhibit strong motivation
to pursue an academic path. They receive mentored opportunity to lead
classroom and laboratory teaching at the undergraduate level and thereby
sharpen their teaching skills in preparation for academic careers. Teaching
fellows also receive enhancements to their stipend and a few other privileges.
The University of North Carolina system charges higher
tuition and fees for students from outside North Carolina than to in-state
students. In the case of graduate assistants, this differential between
out-of-state and in-state tuition is waived for U.S. applicants and
some international students with strong academic records by recommendation
of the Department. Maintaining domicile in North Carolina for 12 months
entitles a U.S. student to apply for classification as a resident of
North Carolina for tuition purposes. For current tuition rates, please
refer to the General Information section of the NCSU Graduate Catalog.
Job Opportunities
Master's graduates with U.S. citizenship usually receive
job offers from employers such as utility companies, national laboratories,
nuclear service companies, government, and vendors for nuclear installations.
Ph.D. graduates in nuclear engineering are employed by private research
laboratories, national laboratories, and government agencies in research
positions. A small number of doctoral graduates go to academic positions
at universities.
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