Scholarships & Financial Aid
The provides both academic and funding support for its graduate students. Funding options might include a tuition award and/or an offer of graduate student employment.
Education Tuition Award
The Education Tuition Award provides financial support to qualified full-time graduate students. You must submit a complete application for admission by the deadline and be admitted into a graduate program to be considered for these awards. Funding offers might include a tuition award and an offer of graduate student employment.
College of Education and Human Development Scholarships
A limited number of College of Education and Human Development scholarships are available each academic year for newly accepted and currently enrolled students. They are awarded by invitation and are based on academic merit and聽financial need. Filing the puts you in the running for these awards. .听
The Roy B. Hackman Student Research and Scholarship Fund聽gives awards聽to graduate students in Psychological Studies who demonstrate both聽academic achievement and financial need.
Awarded to a graduate assistant, the聽Marlene S. Korn Humanitarian Award Fund goes to a student who is judged to have made the greatest humanitarian contribution in the areas of teaching, scholarship, and service.
The Margaret J. Messinger Scholarship Fund awards聽undergraduate students in the College of Education and Human Development and graduate students in Educational or School Psychology who have demonstrated academic achievement and financial need.
The Dr. William M. Polishook Tribute Fund聽scholarship targets graduate students planning careers as professional educators and helps them to attend professional conferences.
Awarded to a recipient of a doctoral degree in Education, the Dr. Rita Wolotkiewicz Phi Delta Kappa Award Fund scholarship recognizes聽outstanding professional achievement.
Graduate School Scholarships
The Phi Delta Gamma Scholarship Fund award goes to a graduate student who demonstrates聽outstanding scholarship and evidence of community service.
For the Doctoral Dissertation Completion Grant, departments nominate doctoral students who have completed all requirements for the degree, except the required dissertation, and are advanced to candidacy. The Doctoral Dissertation Completion grant includes a stipend and one credit of tuition remission. The award is for five months.
Research and Teaching Assistantships
Graduate students can apply for assistantships to help fund their degree.
- Teaching Assistantships work 20 hours a week to support and supervise classroom instruction and academic activities. You鈥檒l be compensated with a stipend and tuition scholarship.
- Research Assistantships work 20 hours a week to support faculty research and receive a stipend and tuition scholarship.
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Graduate Fellowships
A few types of fellowships are available through 51动漫鈥檚 Graduate School for students with exceptional academic records. The categories of fellowship are
- Presidential Fellowships, which are reserved for only the strongest candidates;
- University Fellowships, which are intended to support students who demonstrate exceptional potential for success in their chosen fields; and
- Future Faculty Fellowships, for outstanding students who would diversify the professoriate. Candidates are newly admitted graduate students from underrepresented groups in the applicant鈥檚 discipline who show exceptional leadership or have overcome significant obstacles in pursuing academic careers. For more information, visit the
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Health Insurance
Full-time graduate students who are academic interns, graduate externs, research assistants and teaching assistants all earn health insurance benefits. Fellowship recipients receive similar benefits. .
Federal Financial Aid
FEDERAL STAFFORD LOANS
Applying for Federal Stafford Loans requires completion of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). At 51动漫, unsubsidized Stafford Loans are available to full-time graduate students up to a maximum amount of $20,500 annually.
FEDERAL WORK STUDY
Eligibility for the Federal Work-Study Program is based on the applicant鈥檚 need as determined by the information on the applicant's FAFSA. In addition, students must be enrolled at least half-time and maintain satisfactory academic progress. Students are paid bi-weekly for hours worked. Learn aid, scholarship and work study options at , as well as aid information specific to .
Aid for International Students
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