Are these stipends good?

[pyroknife]

UMich - 28K Stipend for 12 months, tuition+health insurance+some other things covered. 

Cornell - 31k Stipend for 12 months,  tuition+health insurance+some other things covered. 

 

I thought PhDs typically receive stipends around 20k? 

Then again, I don't know the cost of living in ann arbor and ithaca. Though I am under the impression that these places aren't very expensive to live at. 

Edited February 8, 2014 by pyroknife

[intirb]

For engineering, that sounds about right.  Obviously cost of living is pretty cheap in those areas, so that's a huge bonus.  Nice!

 

You can find baseline MIT graduate student stipend information here, for comparison: https://gsc.mit.edu/programs-initiatives/col/  It's a range from 25k to 36k, though admittedly in a much highest cost of living area.