Reply to previous post. Yes, I have accepted the offer of admission. I am not sure. I don't have any better offers at hand. I know that the I20 amount is pretty low. But I did contact some of the PhD students at OSU. They said they get a funding to about 2000 USD per month.

To the reply to the original OSU post, since you have info about what is on the I20, have you accepted their offer? If yes, I want opinions on whether I should accept it as well without the funding letter? Will they give funding eventually? Also, $16500 for 9 months is way less as compared to other universities. Any advice will be helpful. Thanks a lot.

To the post below. I got an admit on 31st Jan. I still haven't received any update on the financial information. I mailed the graduate coordinator and also got the same response as yours. But on the I20, it mentions an amount of approx 16500 USD for 9 months as funding in addition to the tuition waiver. But I haven't received any official email detailing stipend and other health benefits.

I got accepted a month or so back but haven't received an offer letter yet. Mails to the department coordinator yield replies like 'we don't have any financial information yet.' Any other people with the same problem? Will they give funding eventually? The deadline to accept is 15th April.

I got an e-mail about funding $27000/yr Toelf 103, three 1st author papers ..

Hey! I too received an admit from OSU around Feb 1 but no mention of funding. They haven't sent an offer letter yet but keep spamming with info about why I should consider OSU. No reply to the mail I sent to the department office. Can any American student call the dept and let us know here?

Have anyone who received mail on 1st feb about admission form OSU heard anything about funding ? I mailed them during that period, they replied to be sending out more info in coming weeks. Its been 10 days.

Applied in Nov 30th. MSc GPA: 3.65, 5 ISI papers, 2 conference papers.

1 patent, no publication, 3 yrs research experience, I yr exchange student in JP, 26000/ yr, 85% up health insurance waive