Stipend/Assistantships and Financial Assistance

Several types of financial support are available to graduate students. In addition, graduate assistantships are awarded to our PhD students and on a case-by-case basis to master’s degree students if funding is available. For the 2008-09 academic year, full-time teaching assistantships (nine months) pay $19,098 for beginning graduate students, $20,096 for those with an MS or the equivalent, and $22,342 for those who have passed the PhD general examination.

During the summer, additional support is provided to PhD students, and University fellowships are also available. Tuition is waived for graduate students who are awarded half or full teaching assistantships and with full time registration (six credits or more and maintaining a 3.0 or better grade average). Both half and full teaching assistants may purchase excellent health-care coverage, heavily subsidized by UConn. There are also several research fellowships available to PhD students.

With the stipend and tuition waiver, (not including medical benefits and University fees), the value of a beginning UConn PNB PhD graduate assistantship totals approximately $38,500. For more information on fees that are not paid by our department, please see: http://www.grad.uconn.edu/fees.html

International students must pass an oral English proficiency test to qualify for a teaching assistantship. See http://itap.uconn.edu/ta/resources/englishpolicy.htm for more details.