Financial Assistance

Two types of financial assistance are available to graduate students: teaching assistantships and fellowships. Normally, teaching assistantships will be awarded only to students in the Ph.D. program. Contingent on the availability of funds and a student's making satisfactory progress in the program, every effort will be made to ensure that each Ph.D. student is offered aid in the form of a teaching assistantship or fellowship. Information on financial assistance is available from the Director of Graduate Studies. There is no separate application form for financial assistance.

To be eligible for financial support, students must enroll in a minimum of nine graduate credit- hours per semester, with exceptions granted by the Director of Graduate Studies and, in some cases, the Graduate School. These credit-hours should directly contribute to the student's degree, i.e., should not be courses audited or taken for a grade of 'satisfactory' unless such credits are all that remain to complete the student's degree requirements.