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The stipend is $4000 before Tax in total. It's more like $500 per month for 8 months in your 2nd year. Which translates to $250 bi-week before Tax, after tax it would be near ~~ $233 (assuming no other income).
GA can take a lot of time or none at all depending upon your engagement, nature of GA and your comfort level with the subject matter. E.g. I was the GA for Prof. Murray who teaches IT. So my work load was manageable as compared to one of my friend who was GA for Prof. Ganeshan who teaches Operations. The reason is my friend was doing lot of research work - which coincided with his report submissions he had for his electives and his job search. I had different electives - so different format of work load, and had a job by March. So my work load was top heavy in Sept / Oct and eased up by Nov to virtually non existent by Feb.
These of course change every year and vary case by case basis. GA's are allocated somewhat randomly. You submit your GA application and give your top 3 choices. You may get your top pick you may not get any of your 3 picks. Professors, Administration staff, Program directors also provide their inputs in the selection process.
I liked my GA and the $233 bi-weekly payment.
Thanks a lot for this, I thought that 4k bi weekly would be extremely high for a GA, but wasn't expecting it to be annual either. Thanks for clearing it up. Can you tell me a bit more about the classes? The primary method for teaching is case methods or lectures?
$4000 biweekly? Oh Boy! That would mean $104,000/Year or $50/hour. You'd consider yourself pretty luck if one would get a job paying that much. Considering the overall average salary from W&M is around $80,000.
Let me tell you that other on-campus part-time jobs at W&M will payout at a rate of $7.25/ hour (or the minimum wage for VA). Max rate I heard was $10/hour.
Most companies like to pay $15 - $25/ hour for Internships. The big ones may payout at the scale of $35-$45/hour for Internships. Landing those internships is tough and competitive.
I know that Class of 2014 - many students had to accept internships at $12/hour - some accepted for free. Because they were not getting anything even in mid June.
It's more stressful when it comes to job rate and job search. Anyways, to answer your question there is no single primary method across classes. Each class is different, e.g. Economic analysis will be almost 100% theory (the subject is such). Marketing will be 100% Case, you will have 33 classes to do 31 cases (or something like that). Finance and Accounting will be a healthy mixture of case, lecture, class participation etc. Operations will be 60% Case, 20% lecture, 20% simulation games (just ballpark estimates).
W&M faculty is highly regarded in US. Checkout Professor's profile on W&M MBA Faculty directory, however not everyone likes everyone. I did not like few professors but other students did, similarly others did not like the teaching methods of some professor - but I absolutely loved it!
15 Jan 2016, 10:11
