Assistantships benefit both students and their institutions. They provide students with a stipend to help cover their expenses and an opportunity to learn skills that help prepare them for their future careers. At the same time, they provide institutions with a source of labor for teaching and research projects. Twenty percent of all graduate and first-professional students and 32 percent of full-time, full-year students received an assistantship in 1999–2000. However, variation existed across degree program levels and fields of study. Doctoral students received assistantships more frequently (47 percent) than did master's (16 percent) or first-professional (11 percent) students. In addition, at the doctoral level, students in science and in engineering were more likely than students in the humanities/social sciences to have assistantships (figure B). At the master's level, M.A./M.S. students in science were more likely than those in other fields to have assistantships.

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