Permission is sometimes granted for second-year Master in Finance students to work as Teaching Assistants or tutors for other graduate students. Students are only eligible to perform this work during their second year in the program and after they have taken all five core courses and have a GPA of 3.0 or higher.
Any possible TA assignments or Grader appointments must be approved by the Director of Graduate Studies. Students must notify the Academic Administrator of any TA assignment requests to confirm approval and to be registered for the mandatory training.
MFins approved to TA are only permitted to perform a maximum of a “three-hour” appointment (or halftime). Some assignments are only one hour or two hours. The breakdown of hour assignments is as follows:
| Assignment Hours | Avg Actual work Hours |
| 3 hour | 10 hours/week |
| 2 hour | 7 hours/week |
| 1 hour | 4 hours/week |
Duties can include, but are not limited to, precepts, office hours, grading, problem set creation. Assignments regardless of “assignment hours” requires you to work the number of work hours each week for the entire semester (ie- a three-hour Assignment equals 10 hours of actual work hours).
TA appointments offer you a stipend AND tuition support with a value that is based on the assignment hours you are assigned. For more information on payment rates, visit this page.
Some Finance graduate level courses only require additional grading support. Grader ONLY appointments are NOT Teaching Assistant appointments and DO NOT have any interaction with students. The assignment strictly offers grading and homework/problem set support to faculty. These appointments are also only allowed a max of “three hours” (are typically only one or two-hour assignments) and ONLY provide a stipend rate of $50/hour and NOT any tuition support and require weekly entry of hours and duties into the student JOBX system.
Each year, the Center will have an option for our second-year Master in Finance students to tutor incoming first-year Master in Finance students.
Second-year Master in Finance students are eligible to tutor first-year Master in Finance students (particularly in Math-related needs), subject to approval by the Director of Graduate Studies. If approved, MFin tutors will be paid at a rate of $45/hour. The number of hours worked and the number of students supported will be determined on a case-by-case basis by the Director of Graduate Studies. Some tutors will tutor up to two students and can be done in a group setting depending on the tutees’ needs.
Princeton BCF’s Academic Administrator will conduct periodic status checks with both the tutor and the tutee to verify that the sessions are indeed happening and are useful. If at any time the sessions stop or are not going well, the assignment will be terminated and financial support will be discontinued.