scholarships
All master students and PhD students receive a scholarship, and in addition they can TA courses and teaching laboratories, therefore also receiving teaching salaries.
In the Faculty of Physics, master students receive 5 portions of scholarship and PhD students receive 6 portions of scholarship. The value of each scholarship portion is detailed in the table below. There is no tax on scholarship.
TA salary depends on the number of weekly teaching hours and is given in addition of the scholarship.
Typical examples:
Master student in the second year, which TAs three hours a week in a teaching lab, will receive NIS 4,950 in scholarship and NIS 1,000 in teaching salary. Total of NIS 5,950 per month. The above amounts are in addition to the full coverage of tuition.
PhD students, after the candidacy exam (usually conducted at the end of the first year of doctorate), which teaches in a course 2 frontal teaching hours a week would receive NIS 7,686 in scholarship and another NIS 2,250 NIS in teaching salary. Total of NIS 9,950 per month.
The rate for a monthly scholarship portion as from January 2016
Type of degree and research stage | Scholarship portion in NIS |
MSc before research proposal | 925 |
MSc after research proposal | 990 |
PhD before candidacy exam | 1180 |
PhD after candidacy exam | 1281 |
Remarks:
- In addition to the above amounts, the portions include full tuition scholarship (25% tuition scholarship per portion).
- Granting scholarships depends in part on the ability to finance of the investigator supervisor.
- The scholarship amounts are periodically updated