The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign offers a fully funded Master’s in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (MATESOL). The MATESOL degree is intended to prepare candidates to be professional leaders in the many roles that teachers play: Students attending a lecture classroom instructor, peer coordinator, teacher preparation, curriculum and materials developer, program administrator, etc. Nearly all of the UIUC MATESOL students are the beneficiaries of some form of financial aid for at least part of the time they spend working on their degree. Most degree candidates with native or native-like competence in English receive appointments as graduate assistants.