Due to an increase in the number of people coming to ASU, it has become very competitive to get an assistantship or an hourly job. You have to be prepared to support yourself for atleast two semesters.

Students get campus jobs in variety of places and offices. The pay ranges anything from 5.15$/ Hour to 12/$/ Hour. As per students the regulations on an F1 visa are allowed to work for 20 hours per week during a regular semester and 40 hours per week during the break i.e. during the winter and the summer break. To see what jobs are advertised and apply for them you can follow this Job Link (www.asu.edu/hr/jobs), or you can go to Arizona State University and go to Work at ASU link on the home page.

On-campus jobs:

The hourly jobs are easy to find at Arizona State University, as it is very big University. Also there is a quite a bit of funding in the form of Graduate Teaching Assistants (TA) & Research Assistant (RA) available at the University for international students. This also depends on which department they are enrolled in. Continuation of TA's & RA's depends on GPA and there job performance.

Funding:

• Computer Science (CS): The students in this department stand a good chance of getting Assistantships than others (you may probably not get in your first semester but may land up with one in the second semester, but keep in mind your first semester GPA goes a long way in determining whether you get funding or not). Along with these, new students can get Graduate tuition Scholarship (GTS - Out-of-state student fees is waived) if they get a grader job with any Professor in the Department and request him to recommend his name for GTS. With the present situation, the chances of getting funding in CS Department are also diminishing.
  
• Electrical Engineering (EE): There are a lot of students in this department so very few get funding here. Mainly students who have specific fields of interest and can impress upon the Professor can get some RA's, depending on there GPA of first semester some lucky guys can get TAs.
  
• Industrial Engineering (IE): This case is also same as that of EE.
  
• Other Departments: As the number of students pursuing Master's in other departments is less they have a good stand of getting an RA or TA.

Along with the funding from the departments there are quite a few Graduate Assistant/Associate (GA) positions available in other departments, which the students can apply for. Most GA positions require computer skills (C, C++, JAVA, HTML, MS-Office, Photoshop and Database packages like MS Access, Sybase etc.). Others require organizational and public relation skills. The chances of getting a GA in the first semester are quite good. However it is important to remember that these positions fill up quickly, hence we strongly recommend you build up a strong computer skill set (HTML, MS ACCESS, JAVA, C++ recommended) and arrive here at least two weeks before the semester starts.

Hourly jobs:

There are a lot of hourly jobs available at Arizona State University. So most of the guys stand a good chance of getting one if they properly apply after reaching here. Mostly jobs are in the form of Office Assistant, Computer Assistant, Library Assistant etc. with pay scale ranging from $5.5 - 10.0/hr with Office Assistant getting the least & computer related jobs highest.

Off-Campus jobs:

The students can start working off-campus i.e. companies as soon as they come here through Corporate Leadership Programs (CLP) and Engineering Internship Program (EIP) provided by the University. These programs are similar to TA's / RA's and provides tuition fee waiver and a monthly income of around $1000-1200.

Generally there will be career fairs conducted by companies to hire students under this program throughout the year (generally 3-4 times a year) but the number of companies attending the fairs has come down drastically due to slowdown of economy. Also with the present situation not many students are likely to get a job in the companies.