Article: Graduate students feel the pinch of little financial aid

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(Tufts Daily) (U-WIRE) MEDFORD, Mass. -- Beginning this year, a number of Ivy League universities have implemented more comprehensive programs of graduate aid in an effort to attract the most qualified students. Graduate students' searches for aid have been stymied by continuing increases in tuition, stagnant levels of government assistance and the decentralized nature of financial aid information.

At Tufts University, however, there have been no broad-based plans to offer more aid, and graduate students here face the same funding difficulties as other schools across the country.

Undergraduate students are able to pool the resources of federal and state governments, ...

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