Many decisions are made by March of each year for assignments beginning the following fall semester. After March, students should check with their departments to see if openings are still available. Assistantships do not provide full financial support, and therefore do not fulfill CMU's financial support requirement. Fellowship application materials are available on the College of Graduate Studies website. Students who do not have access to the web may request that fellowship application packets be mailed to them by the College of Graduate Studies.
Packets are available early in the fall of each year.
The deadline for submission of all materials is February 6. Applications that are received after the deadline, or that are incomplete as of the deadline, will not be considered. All fellowships are valid for one academic year, grant in-state tuition, and provide a tuition scholarship of 30 credit hours. In order to be certain the GRE score reaches the College of Graduate Studies by the February 6 deadline, the GRE must be taken no later than early December. The GRE is a critical part of the fellowship application, and applications without GRE scores will not be considered.