The Office of Graduate Studies awards University Fellowships on the basis of nominations by the graduate departments and programs to students with regular, full-time status and high academic standing. These awards are unrestricted as to the students' fields of graduate study and research.
Fellowships usually provide full tuition and a stipend.
In addition, students on fellowship are covered by the University's Accident and Sickness Insurance Plan. Master's students who receive fellowships and those doctoral students who have not been admitted to candidacy who receive fellowships must be enrolled for a minimum of nine credit hours of graduate level courses per semester. Occasionally a fellowship holder may need fewer than nine credits to complete his or her program. In such cases the department must petition the Graduate Office for permission to assign a fellowship to that student. Fellows are expected to give their full-time attention to graduate study and may not engage in any remunerative employment while holding the fellowship.