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. You should contact the Director of Graduate Studies in your program or department regarding financial support. In addition, refer to Graduate
Assistant Employment for Twin Cities campuswide assistantships.
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 percent to 24 percent provides a tuition reduction only, with no waiver of nonresident
tuition. The reduction is the amount of resident tuition that is twice
the percentage of your assistantship, deducted from your nonresident
tuition (for example, a 14 percent-time assistant would deduct 28 percent of resident tuition
from the required nonresident 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.
Graduate students who hold fellowships or traineeships are eligible for resident tuition rates, provided the award is administered by the University of Minnesota and the stipend is equal to at least a 25 percent-time graduate assistantship.
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