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postgrad/sfi grants

  • 13-05-2005 2:08pm
    #1
    nitroboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 63 ✭✭


    just wondering could anyone tell me around about how much the sfi grants are worth at the mo, I'm thinkin of doing a postgrad but was wondering what the money is like? thanks


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  • #2
    dudara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    anyone i know on SFI money is getting about a grand a month after fees are paid. Your supervisor or potential supervisor will give you more exact figures. Postgrads are getting more money these days to ensure that people stay in research instead of going directly to well-paid industry jobs


  • #3
    sean_0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 94 ✭✭sean_0


    I'm on SFI money and it is just over a grand a month after fees
    dudara wrote:
    Postgrads are getting more money these days to ensure that people stay in research instead of going directly to well-paid industry jobs

    I'm not sure what you mean by this. Postgrads were getting the same in '98 (IR£10,000 per year) and just look at the increase in the cost of living since then! My rent is twice the price now that it was when I first came to college in 2000.

    The major change has been in the amount of funding available - hence it is much easier to get funding nowadays. If you have a 2.1 or 1H in physics, chemistry or engineering, you would have to be very unlucky not to get funding.


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