Financial Aid Financial Aid for Graduate Students Graduate Assistantships Graduate appointments and awards offered by the Department are competitive with those given by other institutions. These awards and appointments are merit based. These are for nine months and include a waiver of out of state tuition.
Opportunities do exist, however, for twelve month funding.
Teaching assistants in the Department are responsible for leading discussion or lab sections, which are complements to faculty lectures. Advanced students have the opportunity to teach introductory courses such as Human Geography or Contemporary Environmental Issues during the summer session. Research assistantships are quite varied, and depend on the current research interest of the faculty. Special field research opportunities frequently arise for research assistants. Students receiving the Iowa Fellowships have research or teaching assignments for only two of the four years, and have no assignments in the summer.