Teaching and Research Assistantships
UNB provides teaching and research opportunities to help qualified graduate students meet the cost of their studies.
Graduate Teaching Assistantships (GTAs)
- Full-time and part-time students are eligible.
- Graduate Academic Units (GAU) award GTAs from their own budgets.
- Work is in support of the teaching activities of the GAU.
- Rates for GTAs according to the Collective Agreement with the Union of Graduate Student Workers:
- Hourly Minimum (includes vacation pay):
- MPHEC guidelines limit paid employment of full-time students to 10 hours/week
- A full GTA Assignment is 130 hours per term (10 hours per week x 13 weeks) but partial GTAs are allowed.
- GTA should be at the stated rates as above with hours defined in the contract form identified as Appendix B1.
Graduate Research Assistantships (GRAs)
- GRAs are available to full-time students only.
- GRAs are awarded by GAUs from funds allocated by the School of Graduate Studies.
Graduate Academic Assistantships (GAAs)
- Scholarships including NSERC, SSHRC, CIHR as well as funding coming from a supervisor with no work expectation, which is considered thesis related research that forms the basis of the student's thesis/dissertation.
Research Assistants (RAs)
- Full-time and part-time students are eligible
- RA funds come from research grants or contracts awarded to faculty members by external agencies and administered by the university
- The Office of Research Services approves RAs
- Minimum Hourly rates according to the Collective Agreement with the Union of Graduate Student Workers (includes vacation pay): Master's level $22.69 and the Doctorate level $23.69
- RA plus GTA time should not exceed 10 hours per week or 520 hours per year. There can be some flexibility in the distribution of hours to account for vacations and periods when the university is closed.
- RAs should be at the stated rates above with hours defined in the contract form identified as Appendix B2.
