近日收到Northeastern University的funding,但是其中有些不太懂，跪求版主解惑，謝謝~ 截圖如下：

This Dean’s Fellowship is an award that covers the fall 2017 and spring 2018 semesters.
Starting with summer 2018, you are eligible to receive a graduate assistantship for a total
of 10 additional semesters. The stipend for each semester is $10,335, resulting in a
twelve-month stipend of $31,005. In addition, the award includes tuition remission each
semester for a maximum of 12 semester hours per semester in your program of study as
approved by your academic advisor and by the Graduate School of Engineering. This
award covers the University Health Insurance fee, which is currently $2,159; however, it
does not cover other fees such as the University Health & Counseling Services Fee, student
center, and student activity fees (approximately $500 for the academic year). Therefore,
the approximate total annual value of this award package, including stipend, tuition
remission, and health insurance is $86,120.  

我申請的是2017秋季。這里面的意思是第一年是Fellowship,后面是graduate assistantships嗎？10 additional semesters是啥意思呢？

謝謝版主啦

你這是全獎了，第一年Dean’s Fellowship，第二年起就是graduate assistantship。你PhD要讀5-6年的呀，10 additional semesters就是后邊那些年份給你的獎學金。

每年給你8萬多的獎學金，這應該是很強的私立學校吧，哥大的感覺？

呀，第一段就說是了，是NWU！?。?/p>

NEU！

嗯對，NEU, 謝謝版主！那第一年的Dean's Fellowship也是每年8萬嗎，感覺那個8萬多說的像是Graduate assistantship呢

@June　應該是指全部的，包括Dean's Fellowship。

好的 謝謝啦 比心~

順便咨詢下版主吧，環境工程的話Northeastern University, University of Pittsburgh和University of Delaware哪個稍微好一些呢？

@June　PhD主要看你跟的導師，這三所學校差別不大，不管從哪個角度。

恩 但是東北大學這幾年的排名蹭蹭往上漲，不知道有沒有優勢呢

@June　東北大學是個綜排老油條，他們的校長專門針對USNEWS綜排做研究調整的，比如，USNEWS綜排看招生的SAT/ACT分數，它就故意拔高這兩招生指標。90年代，NEU綜排還在150名后，幾年前還是50多位，現在39了！！再有，本科綜排對研究生沒什么意義啊，更何況你還是PhD。

謝謝版主的解答。哎，我太糾結了，一個是full professor, 地位蠻高，但是近幾年的文章不是很好，另一個是華人女associate professor,文章質量不錯。不知道選哪個了。研究方向的話都還比較感興趣

@June　那就對比下兩個教授的人品吧，看能不能多方打聽到。