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Academic Programs

Teaching Assistants

Welcome to the TA Homepage!

Student Teaching Assistants are an integral part of the learning and teaching experience at the Allen School. Each quarter (excluding summer), CSE hires approximately:

  • 80+ undergraduate TAs dedicated to introductory programming courses.
  • 250+ undergraduate TAs working on other CSE courses.
  • 120+ graduate TAs who support all CSE courses.

If you are reading this page, you may be interested in applying for a graduate or undergraduate TA position or in finding out about resources available for your current TA position. The Graduate TA and Undergraduate TA menu items above provide information about application procedures, roles/responsibilities, and pay. Subsequent links (Administrative, Teaching, Technical, and Professional Development) direct you to resources that will help current TAs better perform their jobs.

Finally, take note of the Bob Bandes Award menu item. This award, established in 1984 in memory of Bob Bandes, a Computer Science graduate student who died in a skydiving accident the preceding year, recognizes exceptional performance by undergraduate and graduate students as CSE teaching assistants (lecturing, grading, consulting). It serves as both a memorial for Bob Bandes and as an acknowledgement of the outstanding contributions of our department’s TAs.

Intro to Teaching Assistant Program

Winter Quarter 2025 TA Application — Tentative Dates

  • October 21 — Application Opens
  • Monday, October 28 (5:00 PM) — Application Closes
  • Friday, November 1 (5:00 PM) — Deadline for CSE grad students to withdraw TA application. After this date, any CSE grad student (PhD or BS/MS) with an active TA application will be assumed to be committed to accepting a TA assignment for winter quarter (unless additional time requested).
  • October 28-Nov. 3 — Course instructors submit TA preferences.
  • November 8 (tentative) — Preliminary TA assignments posted.

Important note regarding CSE 12x (Introductory Programming) positions:

New TAs for CSE 121, 122, and 123 are selected through a separate process which takes place during the preceding quarter. An announcement with information on how to apply for winter 2025 CSE 12x TA positions will be made toward the end of the autumn quarter. More information on CSE 12x TA positions and instructions on how to apply and be notified when the application is available can be found here.

The CSE TA application for Winter 2025 is now OPEN.

Graduate TA: information & application here.

Undergraduate TA: information & application here.