WARNING: Any awards of financial support (e.g., fellowships providing tuition and stipend, or assistantship appointments for teaching or research work) are intended to assist students while they focus on their studies. Concurrent employment is therefore limited. This underlying principle is expressed in Stanford's Graduate Student Handbook (http://www.stanford.edu/dept/DoR/GSH/Sec1C.html#Fin9) and is built into university systems for the payment of student financial support.

International students on full assistantships (50% research or teaching appointments, for 20 hours of work per week) may not be employed for ANY additional hours of work during the academic year. As long as they are not enrolled over the Summer, international students may work full-time on-campus during that quarter. However, assistantships require that the student be enrolled during any quarter in which they hold an assistantship appointment, including Summer Quarter. Summer quarter assistantships are therefore limited to 90% FTE (36 hours per week), with concurrent enrollment in at least one unit. For more information regarding on-campus employment please review: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/icenter/visas/student/campus_employment.html

For international students on full fellowship support, there are similar limitations on additional work hours. Any fellowship that provides stipend support equal to or greater than the minimum salary set by Stanford for a 50% research or teaching assistantship, AND provides at least 10 units of tuition, is considered a "full fellowship." Students with this level of fellowship support may have either an additional 8 hours of hourly employment on campus, or a supplemental assistantship of up to 25%.

In addition, individual fellowship sources may have more restrictive rules than those set by Stanford or the immigration service. For example, the Stanford Graduate Fellowships (SGF) do not allow fellowship use during any quarter in which a student is enrolled in Curricular (CPT) or Optional Practical Training (OPT). So, according to Stanford policy (http://sgf.stanford.edu/program/index.html#Practical_Training), Fellows may not use the SGF to support a quarter in which he/she is registered for any amount of practical training (CPT or OPT). For more information regarding practical training please review:  http://www.stanford.edu/dept/icenter/practical/prac.html

Please check first with your department before assuming that employment is allowed while you are receiving fellowship support.

ADDITIONAL IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR STUDENT ON FELLOWSHIPS OR ASSISTANTSHIPS
Students who hold I-20s showing funding from fellowships or assistantships who decide to forego their fellowship/assistantship funding for a quarter in order to do CPT or OPT during that quarter, must remember to sign the Practical Training Application (PTA) form stating that no assistantship or fellowship will be received during the requested period of practical training.