Special Student Status Students are admitted to this category for general course work or transfer purposes. Special students are required to meet the regular admission standards applicable to the program in which they wish to pursue course work. If a special student is subsequently admitted to a degree prgram, six hours of course work taken as a special student may be applied toward a master's degree. Up to 12 hours of course work taken as a special student may be applied toward a doctoral degree. Teaching and research assistantship contracts are issued by the Graduate School.
Stipends vary according to the amount of work required and the experience of the student.
Accompanying tuition scholarships of up to nine graduate credit hours per semester are based on academic achievement. The deadline for the receipt of assistantship applications to be filed with the graduate program advisor of the department to which the student is applying is February 1, for the following academic year. To be eligible for an assistantship, the student must be enrolled full time, be in good academic standing, and have an assistantship application on file for the coming academic year. The Office of Student Financial Services has information on student loans.