Graduate Student Employment

Cal Poly students have many on-campus and off-campus employment options, some of which may be accessed on-line via Mustang Jobs under Career Services. In addition, many graduate students are employed by their academic departments as part-time instructors and as assistants on sponsored research projects. Such departmental employment provides income and, in many cases, meaningful career enhancement experience.

If you are currently a Cal Poly graduate student interested in departmental employment, you should discuss this with your academic advisor, other faculty in your areas of interest, or, for a teaching position, with your department chair.

If you are a prospective graduate student, planning to start in September, you should notify your Graduate Coordinator by mail or email by March 1 that you would like to be considered for a teaching and/or research assistant position. Faculty in each graduate program review these requests in early March and make commitments by March 15 to applicants based on merit and the extent to which funds are available.

International applicants should be aware that the college generally does not make prior financial commitments to non-US applicants that can be used to attain financial certification.