international graduate student policies
We do our best to facilitate equitable treatment across the graduate student population. Since university policy discriminates against international students (they are charged Nonresident Supplemental Tuition and are not eligible for all of the UCLA-internal fellowships that domestic students are), we try our best to help.
- all of our department-internal deadlines and requirements apply to all students equally
- the Linguistics Department pays for NRST for international students for their first ten quarters
- in the case of normal progress, all students are to ATC during their tenth quarter
- once a student advances to candidacy (ATCs), UCLA waives their NRST for a maximum of nine consecutive quarters following ATC (in the case of normal progress where a student ATCs during their tenth quarter, NRST would be waived until the end of Fall quarter of year 7)
- in an attempt to make up for the fact that international students are not eligible for the Graduate Research Mentorship program, we instituted the following incentive system for international graduate students:
- international students for whom the department pays NRST shall have the option of ATCing early, in return for non-TA support
- such a student who advances by the end of the Spring quarter of their third year (note: must be during Spring quarter, NOT during the following summer) will receive one non-TA quarter in year 4
- such a student who advances by the end of the Winter quarter of their third year will receive two non-TA quarters in year 4
- international students for whom the department pays NRST shall have the option of ATCing early, in return for non-TA support