On a competitive basis, financial assistance is available to qualified admitted applicants in the form of Graduate Teaching Assistantships (GTA), currently at up to $20,200 for Ph.D. students and up to $17,400 for Master's Degree students per academic year, with the possibility of summer support included. In addition, all GTAs and Graduate Research Assistantships (GRA) carry a tuition waiver of 100% of the total tuition.
- International students. A minimum TOEFL score of 600 Paper-Based Test (250 CBT or 100 iBT) or a minimum IELTS score of 7.5 is normally recommended for all international students seeking support in the form of GTA.
- Some exceptions can be approved by the Graduate Coordinating Committee (GCC) and the Head of the Department. In this case, a committee consisting of the Department Head, the Graduate Coordinator, and a member of the GCC will interview the candidate.
Duties of the GTA may consist of teaching two courses (six semester hours) per semester, assisting in large mathematics and statistics courses, grading, or assisting in the Math Domain, the departmental computer laboratory, or the Learning Center.
GTA workshop. All new teaching assistants must attend a university-wide workshop for graduate teaching assistant certification and an orientation course in August prior to the beginning of the Fall Semester.
- No student may assume graduate teaching responsibilities without satisfactorily completing this workshop and orientation course.
- All graduate students receiving a teaching assistantship should receive further information about the workshop and orientation course by early August from the Graduate School.
- Continuation of financial support is contingent on the student making satisfactory progress in his/her graduate program.