Graduate student funding information:
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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. |
