Nearly all fulltime graduate students in the Department receive financial aid in the form of teaching or research fellowships. Financial assistance tendered to a student before enrolling at the University of Vermont can be expected to continue throughout his or her graduate career provided the student's progress continues to be satisfactory. These fellowships, which provide a stipend and full tuition remission, are the most usual form of fellowship support offered to entering graduate students. Although teaching fellow appointments are made for the period of the academic year only, the Department normally provides each teaching fellow with summer support from research grant funds or other resources of the Department. These research appointments provide for the payment of tuition and for a stipend equivalent to that received by a teaching fellow.
Appointment is on a calendar rather than academic year basis.
In addition, exceptionally well- qualified students are nominated by the department for national fellowships, such as those provided by the National Science Foundation.