Graduate Assistantships

Graduate Tuition Scholarships are awarded to qualifying graduate students as a half or full scholarship at the in-state tuition rate. (Students who receive an assistantship are counted as in-state for their tuition, regardless of their permanent address.) Tuition Scholarships do not cover fees and no service or work is done in exchange for a scholarship.

Generally, Tuition Scholarships and/or Assistantships are awarded for one academic year. At the end of that period, students are encouraged to apply for a continuation of funding. If a student was originally denied funding, a new request for funding may be submitted as deadlines approach. For the fall term, the application deadline is February 1; for the spring, November 1.

Students should submit Assistantship and Scholarship applications at the same time they submit the admission application and supporting documents. However, students will receive an admission decision before they will be notified of funding.

Graduate Assistantships and Graduate Tuition Scholarship applications can be found at https://www.grad.uni.edu/assistantships.

Both applications should be sent to admissionsprocessing@uni.edu. Applications also can be sent as email attachments. Please follow the instructions included on the Assistantship and Scholarship forms. 

Graduate Teaching Assistantships in English/TESS/TESOL (Word document)
Graduate Research Assistantships in English/TESS/TESOL (Word document)
Graduate Teaching Assistantships in Spanish (Word document)