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1800 a month is a high stipend, FYI.

Some of the schools around here (Boston) have stipends which work out to be about 18,000 per year.

15 years ago $1200-$1500 was what me and friends got at MIT. (And in many ways I was living like a king.)

Same for me, but at a different university. School was free, good stipend, and free housing cause i was also an RA (not normally allowed but they let me do it). Living like a king is an apt description. Best 5 years of my life, without question.

I heard Stanford gives a (pre-tax) monthly stipend of $4k to their graduate students.

It's always low, with a strict limit set by the NIH, and schools have a tiny bit of wiggle room. For example, a stipend in NYC is the biggest nationwide[1], but that's mostly cost of living.

1500-1800 was common at the schools in the mid atlantic that I knew of recently.

[1] http://www.wendychao.com/science/stipends/

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