Graduate Student Income Data

Sources, Definitions and Reports

PDAD&C
March 12, 2015

Overview

Context: enrolment and student support

Data Sources
Definitions
Funded Cohort
Funding Commitment
Actual Incomes

Summary Reports (2012-13)

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2013-14 financial support for graduate

students = $256 million

Supervisor NSERC,
SSHRC, CIHR grants

TA, GA, Casual Work

Student NSERC,
SSHRC, CIHR Awards
UTAPS for Professional Masters,
Doctoral Completion Awards

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Sources for Graduate Income Data

Enrolment per the MTCU official count file

Payments issued to students as recorded in:

ROSI (student awards, fellowships)
HRIS (employment income)

MedSIS (funding from affiliated hospitals)

and aggregated in a Cognos data cube and in

custom FIS reports
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Funded Cohort and TAs

Two-thirds of funded cohort students hold TA-ships

~60% of graduate student TAs are in the funded cohort

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Defining the Funded Cohort

TA Non-TA

TOTAL

Total graduate enrolment (HC)

5,140

10,512

15,652

Subtotal, excl professional and flex-time

4,411

3,510

7,921

Less: Professional master's

Less: Flex-time and professional doctorates

(567)
(162)

(5,997)

(1,005)

(6,564)

(1,167)

Less: part-time and partial year enrolment

(584)

(783)

(1,367)

Less: upper year master's (y2+)

(162)

(379)

(541)

Less: unfunded master's programs y1

Less: upper year doctoral (y5+)

Total: funded cohort

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(94)

(648)

2,923

(319)

(596)

1,433

(413)

(1,244)
4,356

Who are the Funded Cohort?

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Defining the Funding Commitment

Minimum annual funding commitment made to

each student in the funded cohort

A combination of fellowships, stipends from

research grants, external scholarships, bursaries,
and up to 205 hours of TA work (less in some depts)

Amount varies by department, but is at least $15k

plus tuition and fees:
$23,400 domestic

$33,100 international

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Average Minimum Commitments

Division

Engineering
Tri-Campus A&S
OISE
Medicine
Single Dept Faculties

Dept-Level
Minima*
$15k - $17k
$15k - $21k
$15k
$15k - $19k
$15k - $26k

Funding in addition to tuition and fees

Variability is largely the result of outside factors
Availability of grant funds (NSERC/CIHR vs SSHRC)
Competition among peer institutions

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Average Per Student Funding by Source

$35,109

Domestic
Doctoral
Funding
per Student
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Ranges of Domestic PhD Support

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Actual Incomes by Division, 2012-13

Domestic PhD Funded Cohort

Median
=~32.2K
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Incomes by Year of Study (Domestic PhD)

Year

In
Funded
Cohort?

HUM

SOC

PHSCI

LFSCI

$30.9k

$32.6k

$32.7k

$32.8k

$34.7k

$35.7k

$34.8k

$35.0k

$36.4k

$38.9k

$36.3k

$38.8k

$35.7k

$37.4k

$33.4k

$34.8k

$29.2k

$22.5k

$25.3k

$28.2k

$15.6k

$14.3k

$20.8k

$19.4k

ALL

SOME
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* Students pay tuition and fees out of these amounts

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Sample Department: Humanities, $15k Minimum

Domestic PhD
Income Source

Ext Award
Other
Recipients Students

All
Students

External Awards (SSHRC, OGS)

Fellowships (UTF + Bursaries)
Stipends
Employment Income

21,616 $
- $
6,873
18,630
475
653
12,949
9,806

10,328
13,013
568
11,447

Average Income
Tuition and Fees

38,770 $ 32,232 $
(8,402)
(8,402)

35,356
(8,402)

Average Income Net of Tuition

30,369 $ 23,830 $

26,954

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Sample Department: Sciences, $17k Minimum

Domestic PhD
Income Source

Ext Award
Other
Recipients Students

All
Students

External Awards (NSERC, OGS)

Fellowships (UTF + Bursaries)
Stipends
Employment Income

22,956 $
- $
2,482
8,968
3,229
11,461
9,148
9,593

6,261
7,199
9,216
9,269

Average Income
Tuition and Fees

38,259 $ 29,576 $
(8,402)
(8,402)

31,944
(8,402)

Average Income Net of Tuition

29,857 $ 21,175 $

23,543

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How Do We Stack Up?

Domestic & International Doctoral Enrolment

(including non-Funded Cohort)

16% higher
than our
Canadian
peers (U15)
Comparability issues
among institutions
preclude the
inclusion of health
science disciplines.
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Conclusion

Actual income for funded cohort students

exceeds, often considerably, the university
minimum
Very few in-program students have $15K net
incomes

Larger funding packages in many departments

Major external awards
Additional TA hours
Casual work
Bursary assistance

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Conclusion

Variability in size and composition of funding

commitment by department and division
Decided by each department given academic
context

Data available on request

Averages for individual departments

Doctoral / masters
Domestic / international

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