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Graduate Assistant Job Description

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A Graduate Assistant provides assistance to their departments, students or professors with research or administrative tasks. Their role is attending seminars and periodically lecturing classes, assuming the role of teaching assistant and helping with teaching material, assisting their professor with grading papers, and conducting building staff meetings. Their responsibilities are organizing undergraduate events, finding information in libraries, researching internet sources, conducting various research experiments and analyzing data, designing research methodologies, undertaking various fieldwork research, co-authoring research papers with their professors, and administering performance e...

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Avg Pay: $19K
Jobs: 0
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Avg Pay: $40K
Jobs: 45,460

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  • Bachelor of Engineering (b.eng.) in Computer Engineering
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    Avg. Duration:49 monthsAvg. Fees:$31,174Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
  • Bachelor of Arts (b.a.) in Psychology
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    Avg. Duration:48 monthsAvg. Fees:$31,580Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
  • Bachelor of Science (b.sc.) in Exercise Science
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    Avg. Duration:48 monthsAvg. Fees:$29,136Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
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1.9 years
$30K
The average years of experience in the workforce prior to having this role
1.47 years
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