Completion Fellowships

Overview

The Graduate College and SOLS Completion Fellowships are merit-based awards to support degree completion for outstanding graduate students enrolled in one credit for their last semester or last year of their doctoral program. This is a competitive fellowship award; all applications are reviewed by faculty and selected based on required application materials, detailed below.

Award Details

• $13,657 stipend (same amount as post-candidacy RA/TA stipend), tuition for 1 credit hour, and health insurance coverage.

Mandatory fees, program fees or any other fees are not covered as part of the fellowship.

Terms of Award

• Recipient should enroll for a maximum of 1 credit hour each semester of award (unless they are receiving some other award as well that has a different required amount). This means students need to have completed all of their degree requirements already, including their dissertation (XXX 799) credit hours. 

• Recipient should not be appointed as a TA/RA or hold any other form of employment within the university. 

• Recipient should be able to finish degree according to the timeline submitted in their application.

Eligibility

• Student must be enrolled in an on-campus doctoral program.

• Student will have completed all course work, exams, and/or oral comps for their degree and will only need to register for 1 credit hour in each awarded term. This includes completion of dissertation credit hours.

• Student must be in good academic standing with a minimum 3.0 GPA.

• Student should not plan to hold a TA/RA position or any other form of campus employment during the awarded term(s).

Note: Students cannot be awarded the fellowship multiple times. The Graduate College Fellowship can cover up to two semesters; the SOLS Fellowship can cover one semester max.