What kinds of funding opportunities are there for Masters students?
The Department has far more graduate students than teaching assistantships, and Ph.D. students are automatically sent to the head of the line of students who are hoping for TA positions. Out-of-state Masters applicants with excellent GPAs and GRE scores are potentially eligible for a Chancellor’s Award, which provides two years of TA support, but the Department only offers two awards each year (only to applicants for September admission) and typically the awards are used to recruit out-of-state Ph.D. applicants. If you are an out-of-state Masters applicant who has been admitted to the program, you should contact the Graduate Program Representative to request an NRTR (Non-Resident Tuition Remission), which allows a student to register at the in-state rate for that year (possibly renewable for a second year). The reality is that most of our graduate students work part-time or full-time, not necessarily in an academic setting.
