FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

The EEES Department offers students financial support in the form of graduate assistantships.  To be considered for one, the appropriate application form must be submitted to the Graduate School. This can either be downloaded from http://gradschool.utoledo.edu or submitted on-line. A graduate assistantship includes a waiver of all tuition fees plus a stipend (salary) for the nine-month academic year of at least $10,500 for MS/MSE students and $16,000 for PhD students. Students are still responsible, however, for paying the University's general fee.  Assistantships are renewable for a second year for MS/MSE students and up to four years for PhD students provided they are making acceptable progress toward completion of their degree requirements and are satisfactorily performing their assigned assistantship duties. In exceptional cases, assistantships will be extended for an additional semester beyond the above limits upon the recommendation of the student’s research advisory committee.

Both teaching and research assistantships are available.  Teaching assistants will work up to 20 hours per week teaching laboratory courses, helping professors with grading or performing other duties.  Research assistants work up to 20 hours per week on research projects and seldom have teaching responsibilities. The research assistantships are contingent upon continued funding from extramural sources and are usually awarded only to advanced students, although exceptions may be made for highly-qualified applicants. 

Assistantships beginning in the Fall semester are awarded the previous Spring semester in March and April.  For Fall applications, all requests for financial assistance should therefore be received by February 1^st in order to receive full consideration.