Graduate Assistantship Stipends

Differential stipends are employed to reward and encourage students as they progress through their degree programs. The base stipends for Masters and Doctoral students are fixed at the levels set by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Graduate assistants teaching their own section of a class receive a $500 teaching stipend per section ($1,000 for the academic year).

Summer support is available upon request in the form of teaching or assisting positions during the summer sessions pending budgetary approval.

The four progression levels are awarded to students as follows:

Progression Level	Base Stipend for Academic Year	Teaching Stipend for Academic Year	Summer Stipend for 5-week Session	Total Possible Stipend Per Level
Level 1 - all students in the doctoral program who have successfully completed all written examinations at the doctoral level and are enrolled in 9 credit hours per semester.	$17,991	$1,000	$3,228	$22,219
Level 2 - all students in the doctoral program who have successfully passed two written examinations at the doctoral level and are enrolled in 9 credit hours per semester.	$17,184	$1,000	$3,074	$21,258
Level 3 - all doctoral students who are not at level 2 or level 3.	$16,376	$1,000	$2,919	$20,295
Level 4 - all other students. These students receive the base master?s stipend	$15,163	$1,000	$2,693	$18,856

For administrative purposes, a student's level in any given semester is based on their status at the previous semester.

*Rates are effective from 8/16/2005