Financial Aid and Employment Financial Aid and Employment Financial aid is provided in the form of fellowships and tuition and service fee waivers.
Employment is available in the form of teaching and research assistantships.
The purpose of fellowships is to permit their holders to devote full time to graduate study. Recipients of fellowships must be enrolled as degree candidates and must register during each academic term for which they hold their fellowships. These fellowships are awarded when the offer of admission is made, and are supplemented by an offer of a research or teaching assistantship from the Department. The Department also has available fellowships granted or endowed by companies and private foundations. Most of these fellowships are multiyear awards.