Financial aid in the form of tuition remission and a stipend (currently $37, 000/year) is provided to all MET PhD students, assuming sufficient progress to degree, usually in the form of grant-supported research assistantships, institutional fellowships, teaching assistantships or advanced opportunity fellowships for minority or disadvantaged students. First semester PhD students rotate in three different laboratories as research assistants, choosing a final laboratory and mentor at the end of rotations (normally by the end of the fall semester). Support for rotations is provided by the Graduate School/MET. Once a PhD student enters a research lab, that lab becomes responsible for their tuition, stipend, and fringe benefit costs.
The Molecular & Environmental Toxicology Program does not guarantee funding for incoming or continuing master’s students, however, there are multiple ways to seek funding as an MS student:
- If choosing the research track, some Principal Investigators/advisors are willing to fund MS students, but students should want to clarify this for certain in writing. Research MS students are encouraged to contact individual professors in their areas of interest to determine whether support is available for working in that lab.
- MS students could secure an assistantship position, which, if it was a 33% appointment or higher, would qualify them for tuition remission. MET has one teaching assistantship slot available per semester. Any MET student can apply for these assistantship slots. Other assistantship opportunities are viewable here.
- MS students could also apply for scholarships, fellowships, or other external awards to supplement tuition costs.
Please utilize the tuition workbook to view program-specific tuition/fee rates. More information about cost of attendance can be found here.