Financial Aid
The department maintains a continuing program of financial aid for graduate students, consisting of a combination of fellowships, research assistantships, and teaching assistantships. Typically, an award consists of two components: a tuition grant and a monthly stipend. Both partial and full support packages are available.

At the Ph.D. level, all students typically receive a support package consisting of tuition remuneration along with a full monthly stipend. The most common type of Ph.D. award is a research assistantship funded by a sponsored research project. Usually, students are able to utilize results from this research project towards their thesis dissertation. A typical one-half time research assistantship award covers 9 units of tuition, which is considered a full load for a post-MS student. In addition, this award pays a monthly stipend (set by the Civil and Environmental Engineering Dept.) for 20 hours per week of work on the funded research project.

For MS-level studies, a limited number of 9-month fellowship/assistantship awards are available. These are offered to the most outstanding candidates admitted, without regard to financial need. Selection of financial aid recipients is made by the admissions committee within each individual program; decisions are typically made towards the end of March. Students to whom we are not able to offer financial aid are encouraged to take advantage of loan programs available from the university.

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