The Office of Postgraduate Fellowships assists students in identifying and pursuing externally funded research and study opportunities such as Rhodes, Marshall, Fulbright, James Madison, Harry S. Truman, Andrew W. Mellon and National Science Foundation scholarships and fellowships. UNT graduate students may also apply for traditional financial aid in the form of state and federal grants, as well as for work-study jobs and loans. Most funds are awarded based on financial need, although some loans are not. The university is located in Denton, a pleasant town of 75,000, only 35 miles north of Dallas-Fort Worth, the country's eighth largest metropolitan area. Living expenses in Denton and the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex are reasonable.
Some graduate students live on campus, but most reside in off-campus housing.
Ample housing is available within walking distance of the UNT campus. The University Libraries house a collection of more than 2 million catalogued items, in a variety of formats, in four separate facilities. UNT's libraries are open more than 100 hours per week during the regular academic year and are served by 112 full-time staff, including 38 librarians. The library system's database searching services have access to more than 750 databases in nearly all academic areas. Political science faculty and graduate students have access to computer networks that provide connections to a wide variety of general-purpose and specialized computing equipment.