Net stipend is the amount of competitive (non-need-based) aid that students have to live on after tuition and fees are covered. It is calculated by subtracting total fees and tuition from a student's total gift and assistantship support.

The competitiveness of UC's per capita graduate net stipend offers varies by campus and by academic field.

In 2007, the UC per capita net stipend offer was $1,000 lower than that of competing institutions. This represented an improvement over the $1,500 competitiveness gap that existed between UC and competing institutions in 2004.

The high cost of living in many California communities compared to other parts of the country can exacerbate the net stipend competitiveness gap between the UC campuses and non-UC schools in many cases.

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Source: University of California Graduate Student Support Survey. Additional information on this survey can be found at http://www.ucop.edu/sas/sfs/docs/gradsurvey_2007.pdf. More information on student financial support at UC can be found at http://www.ucop.edu/sas/sfs/.

Figures are in constant inflation-adjusted 2007 dollars; data include Ed.D. students.

You may view or download a table of the raw data used to generate these charts in CSV files, which can be opened in spreadsheet programs such as Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice.

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