Geology Grad Student Financial Financial Aid Financial aid is available to qualified graduate students in the form of fellowships, research assistantships, and teaching assistantships. Appointments are made on a competitive basis, and include tuition and partial fee waivers. Research assistantships are also available from the Illinois State Geological Survey and the Illinois State Water Survey. Students assist with instruction in laboratory and discussion sections of geology courses. Foreign students must pass the Test of Spoken English to be eligible for a Teaching Assistantship.
Students work with a research advisor on a project.
These assistantships are offered by individual faculty members. Expected to be a teaching assistant. No teaching duties formally required. Geology alumni from Texas and Louisiana provide a fellowship that is offered each year on a competetive basis to an outstanding applicant. No teaching duties formally required.