Interested students should contact the Student Employment Office (SEO) after arriving on campus in order to register with the SEO for on-campus employment.

Full-time international graduate students enrolled for a minimum of nine credit hours each semester can apply for on-campus employment through the SEO. Immigration rules allow such students to work a maximum of 20 hours per week on campus during the semester. On-campus jobs are extremely limited in availability, the pay is low, and the income received from them cannot be considered part of the financial support that must be proven in order to be issued an I-20.

Central Michigan University grants tuition waivers only as part of a graduate assistantship or fellowship.