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Funding your graduate studies:
assistantships, fellowships and loans
Teaching assistantships, research assistantships, fellowships,
and loans provide the most common forms of support for graduate students.
If you are a graduate assistant with an appointment of at least 25 percent
(10 hours per week), you will receive a tuition remission (based on resident
tuition rates) equal to twice the percentage of your appointment in the
term of the appointment only. If you hold an appointment of 50 percent
or more for an entire term, you will receive a 100 percent tuition remission.
Nonresident students holding an assistantship of at least 25 percent for
an entire term will be assessed tuition at the resident rates.
An assistantship
of 12.5% to 24% provides a tuition reduction only, with no waiver of non-resident
tuition. The reduction is the amount of resident tuition that is twice
the percentage of your assistantship, deducted from your non-resident
tuition (eg. a 14% time assistant would deduct 28% of resident tuition
from the required non-resident tuition). This is a term-specific privilege
that does not change your basic nonresident classification.
If you have
held an appointment for at least two semesters when your appointment terminates,
you are eligible to pay resident tuition rates for the number of terms
you held an appointment (up to a maximum of four semesters).
Since departments
award assistantships, you should indicate your interest when you apply
for admission. In addition, refer to Graduate
Assistant Employment for Twin Cities campus-wide assistantships.
The Graduate School awards a number of fellowships to incoming
students; please refer to the Graduate
School Fellowship Office for additional information.
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