Awards are renewable annually for three years as long as the fellow maintains a high level of scholarship. Many other fellowships funded by private contributions and income from endowments also are available to incoming graduate students through direct application to various sponsoring organizations. Interested students are encouraged to apply early, even before a graduate school decision is made. Information about such non-university sources of fellowship support should be readily available, such as Gail Schlater's How to Find Out about Financial Aid and Joseph Lurie and Jonathan Miller's A Foreign Student's Selected Guide to Financial Assistance for Study and Research in the United States. Assistantships Graduate assistantships are available to qualified students in all doctoralprograms.
Assistants work with a faculty member to support classroom instruction.
Research assistantships provide support to qualified recipients who work with faculty investigators on research programs sponsored by government, industry, or private agencies. The University offers full or partial tuition scholarships to students qualifying on the basis of merit.