The University has made significant investments in graduate education to ensure grad students thrive, providing a variety of funding opportunities to support their academic journey.
Assistantships and fellowships are competitive funding opportunities. Both options offer a chance to begin your professional experience while still prioritizing your education.
Find the assistantship and fellowship application forms on our Forms page.
UL 青涩直播 awards hundreds of assistantships every year to students admitted to our master鈥檚 and doctoral programs. Assistantships鈥攊ncluding teaching, research, and administrative assistantships鈥攑rovide competitive stipends and tuition/fee waivers in exchange for up to 20 hours of work per week in the classroom, research labs, or offices on campus.
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UL 青涩直播 offers several competitive fellowships that are awarded on academic merit. Fellowships tend to be the most prestigious form of financial assistance available to graduate students. At UL 青涩直播, they typically include a tuition waiver, stipend, and some portion of time that is non-service in nature.
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An initiative of longtime President Ray P. Authement, the UL 青涩直播 Teacher Tuition Incentive Program assists currently employed K-12 teachers and administrators pursuing graduate studies by providing tuition scholarships to support part-time enrollment.
Learn more about the Teacher Tuition Incentive Program
In addition to waiving the application fee, the Graduate School offers tuition and fee waivers on a competitive basis to promising Master鈥檚 students who, as an undergraduate student, were participants of the .
Learn more about support for former McNair scholars
This program provides resident (in-state) tuition to new non-resident (out-of-state and international) graduate students. To be eligible, you must be a new student admitted to a master's or doctoral program in regular admission status.
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The Graduate 青涩直播 Organization and the 青涩直播 Government Association at UL 青涩直播 both offer grad students funding to support research and travel.
Grad students often turn to financial aid and loans to help pay for graduate study. Contact the Office of 青涩直播 Financial Aid at UL 青涩直播 for help with your federal loan application.