The department has received funding for a four-year fellowship for a student starting the Ph.D. program in August 1999. The department also may nominate African American doctoral students for Chachere Fellowships awarded by the Graduate School. Students who are committed to obtaining a Ph.D. and do not have a Master's degree may apply for admission to the Ph.D. program and be eligible for these fellowships. Students wishing to apply for financial aid should so indicate on the Political Science Department Personal Information Sheet and have all applications materials in by March 1. Information about student loan programs is available from the Student Financial Aid Office.
Graduate assistants serve as both research and teaching assistants.
M.A. students assist with faculty research projects or assist with teaching. Ph.D. students may be assigned research responsibilities or assigned to teach freshman and sophomore level courses, such as American Government, Introduction to Comparative Government, Introduction to World Politics, and Methods of Political Research. Occasionally political science graduate students obtain assistantships with other units of the university, such as the UNO Survey Research Center.