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Financial Aid for Doctoral Students
AssistantshipsWe guarantee two assistantships each semester. Assistantships may be in teaching and/or research. Research assistants support faculty members in their research or creative projects and all doctoral students are eligible for them. Teaching assistants typically perform teaching-related activities such as guest lecturing, writing and grading exams and meeting with students. International students and permanent resident aliens are not eligible for teaching assistantships until they have been enrolled at the university for one semester and have passed a language screening exam. Doctoral graduate assistants usually work for 20 hours a week. They are paid a monthly stipend for the nine-month academic year. Students must be enrolled for at least nine hours and no more than 12 hours while working as an assistant. To continue as a graduate assistant, students must maintain a 3.5 GPA and receive positive evaluations of their performance each semester. Assistantships also provide a waiver of resident and non-resident educational fees, providing doctoral students with a substantial savings. Students are still required to pay the incidental fees such as the computing fee and the student activities fee. At this level of assistantship commitment (20 hours per week), the MU Graduate School provides a full subsidy of the cost of student health insurance. This insurance is optional. If you choose to sign up, your cost will be completely subsidized. ScholarshipsWe provide a scholarship of $1,000 per semester to help offset the costs of books and incidental fees, for a total of $2,000 per year. In addition there are several campus-wide fellowships and scholarships available. These are highly competitive and require a very high grade point average and GRE score. The Journalism Graduate Studies Center will select qualified candidates and send their nominations to the Graduate School at the time of admission. Research and Travel SupportDoctoral students receive financial support for direct expenses incurred in conducting research for their dissertation. When finances allow, we provide yearly travel support for one professional conference (typically the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication), should you have a paper accepted there. You will receive up to $500 to help cover costs of travel. In certain circumstances we will fund travel to a second conference when a student has another refereed paper accepted. To receive the full package of financial support outlined above, the Graduate Studies Center requires an updated copy of the FAFSA each year you are enrolled in the journalism doctoral program at MU. We provide a different form for our international students. Federal Financial AidIf you are interested in applying for a federal educational loan, please contact the MU Student Financial Aid Office. You must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident to be eligible for federal financial aid. International StudentsInternational students should contact the International Center about funding opportunities. In addition to the above information, the MU Graduate School has information about funding your graduate program. Questions?Contact the Missouri School of Journalism.
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