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This Two-Time International Graduate Student Gives Excellent Advice to Her Prospective Peers
Personal Finance for PhDs
English - February 01, 2021 05:00 - 47 minutes - 43.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 46 ratingsCourses Education Business Investing debt money phd budget frugality graduateschool investing personalfinance postdoc Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode, Emily interviews Josephine Shikongo-Asino, a second-year PhD student at Oklahoma State University from Namibia. This is Josephine's second stint as an international graduate student in the US, having completed a Fulbright fellowship about ten years ago. She has great advice for prospective and rising international graduate students in the US about the financial transition into graduate school. Josephine and Emily discuss funding models, the importance of saving and debt reduction prior to matriculating, researching cost of living, visa restrictions on working, credit and debt, budgeting, remittances, and more. Josephine's excellent advice nearly always applies to prospective and rising domestic graduate students as well; this episode is for everyone!