Financial Aid

Financial aid in the form of fellowships and research assistantships is awarded to qualified full-time students. Students desiring financial support should apply early and fully communicate their own status and needs.

Assistantships of $17,500 per year are available for M.S. students, with a duration of appointment of 21 months. Assistantships for Ph.D. students start at $21,200, with a duration of appointment of 5 years; yearly Graduate School supplemental awards of either $3000 or $5000 are available for selected Ph.D. students. All assistantships and fellowships include a full tuition waiver and a waiver of non-resident fees provided by the Graduate School as well as a $350 per semester health insurance benefit for students enrolling in one of the three LSU student health insurance options. Students are still responsible for other university fees; these fees can be found in the fee schedule listings on the Office of Budget & Planning website. Assistantship contracts are guaranteed by the Department; if the funding of your faculty advisor should change in any way, your assistantship will be unaffected. Increases to assistantships are made periodically to reflect increases in university fees and cost of living expenses. These increases are made for incoming and existing students.

Full-time graduate students participate in the department's undergraduate instructional program by correcting papers, assisting in laboratories, and other assigned duties. Most assignments require less than four hours per week, and the maximum allowable is 6 hours per week. While there are no teaching requirements, if you are considering an academic career we will allow substitution of actual teaching experience (with a faculty mentor) for the above requirement.

For additional information about financial aid, visit the Assistantship and Financial Aid page on the Graduate School website.

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