jai nepal brother, your assistantship is always first decide by the professors,, research, and teaching assistantship, both. but definately not the scholarship. jai nepal ...ma nepal ko kathmandu bhanne gau bata ho....pahile pahaad chahi solukhumbu ho. mamali Ilam. yaha chahi chicago bhanne gau ma baschhu..... FYI most of the colleges offer scholarship to international student....its extreamly hard to get one though. but if you request proffesor for assistantship (RA/ TA) in most of the cases we can have one for masters degree. you certainly need to have good scores (GRE/ TOEFL). there are 100s of factors..but in essence, most of the colleges in US offer scholarship/fellowship to international student, you need to be highly competent to get one. comparatively it is easier to get TA/RA talking with professors.