Department of Economics
Financial Assistance
Ph.D. Students
The department offers competitive awards through fellowships, graduate assistantships, and tuition waivers to its best applicants. Students who want to be considered for fellowships should apply by February 15.
M.A. Students
The Department of Economics offers ten or more (minimum $5,000 per year) graduate assistantships that assign students to 18 hours of work a week to assist professors in Economics and/or other departments in the Bryan School with their teaching and research. Students may also compete for special graduate assistantships in research centers on campus that require 20 hours of work per week. Interested students should send a resume and indicate areas of research interest. Assistantships are awarded competitively and applications received prior to March 15 are reviewed first.
A limited number of out-of-state waivers for the first year of study are awarded competitively to students as part of their financial package. Out-of-state waivers reduce the tuition of out-of-state student to the levels charged to in-state students. Student fees are not waivable.
Foreign students must provide documentation verifying sufficient funds in an American bank account (currently $27,400 for 2007-2008) to provide for their support in order to obtain an appropriate visa. Foreign students are eligible for a graduate assistantship and out-of-state tuition waivers that reduces the $27,400 amount, but the Department is unable to provide the full $27,400 necessary to obtain a student visa. International students should go to the International Program Center's web page at http://www.uncg.edu/ipg/ipc/ for more information.
Bryan Fellowships
A limited number of Bryan Fellowships are awarded competitively to entering students in all four Bryan School graduate programs. The Fellowship award includes a $2,000 stipend in addition to the graduate assistantship. For out-of-state students, the out-of-state portion of tuition is normally waived. Applicants should have a strong GPA (over 3.5) and a GRE score above 1300. The application deadline for Bryan Fellowships is February 15. Application forms are available from the Economics Department or on-line at http://www.uncg.edu/bae/Bryan_Fellow.pdf.
For highly qualified applicants the Department will submit applications for other fellowships that are awarded on campus through the Graduate School. For this reason, highly qualified applicants should apply for the Bryan Fellowship.