Financial Aid for Graduate Students

Graduate applicants or students interested in receiving financial assistance must:
• be admitted into the graduate program they are pursuing
• be enrolled for at least 6 graduate hours or more per semester

Note: Students taking courses for professional improvement or certifications and post baccalaureate students are not eligible for federal or state financial aid.

Graduate Assistant:

The University awards graduate assistants each year on a competitive basis to graduate students in support of their efforts to obtain a graduate degree. Graduate assistants may serve as teaching assistants, lab assistants or research assistants.
Graduate Assistants Program (link to our graduate assistants page with link to application)

Graduate Incentive Scholarship:

To provide tuition support for graduate students pursuing their first master’s degree, Graduate students, who fulfill the following criteria are eligible to apply for scholarship: 1) are pursuing a first master’s, 2) are unconditional status, 3) have an official Program of Study on file, 4) are a Texas resident and 5) are receiving no other form of financial aid (excluding loans). Unconditional admission refers to: a) beginning graduate students who have satisfactory GRE scores and an undergraduate GPA of 3.0 or better, or b) any graduate student who has completed 12 semester credit hours with a graduate GPA of 3.0 or better