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Funding for All Students Applying

Departmental Assistantships

  • Most assistantships are in the form of graduate research assistantships. These are project-based and renewable based on performance and availability of funds. The department occasionally provides teaching assistantships. These are usually directed to advanced students and the terms are similar to graduate research assistantships.

Graduate Research Assistantship Terms (2011/2012)

  • Stipends for standard 1/2-time assistantship:
    • First-year M.S.: $1,860/month; $22,320 per year
    • Second-year M.S., and Ph.D.: $1,895/month; $22,740 per year
    • Third-year, Ph.D.: $1,930/month; $23,160 per year
  • Health insurance included
  • Waiver of matriculation (registration) fees
  • Tuition waiver on:
    • 9 credits, Fall and Spring Semesters
    • 5 credits, Summer Semester
  • In-state fees on additional credits
  • Stipends for 1/4 time assistantships are proportionately lower but all other benefits are the same

Departmental Fellowships

Five Department endowments support outstanding graduate students with particular areas of interest. The department's Admissions Committee nominates candidates for these fellowships based on materials in the student's application.

John (Jake) and Maxine Ferris Global Agribusiness Fellowship

Topic area: global agribusiness. These fellowships are typically awarded as a supplement to a department assistantship.

Henry and Annabel Larzelere Graduate Fellowship

Topic area: agribusiness management and marketing. Preference, but not exclusive emphasis, is given to students intending to focus on poultry marketing and pricing, cooperative business management, or futures markets. Fellowships may be awarded as a supplement to a department assistantship, or as full funding for one or two semesters of the student's first year.

Lane and Virginia Holdcroft Graduate Fellowship for African Development

Topic area: Community and rural development in Africa. Preference is given to students preparing for university careers or careers in U.S., African National, or international development agencies. These fellowships are typically awarded as a supplement to a department assistantship.

Carol C. Gustafson and Gary S. Murphy Endowed Scholarship in Agricultural Economics.

For support of doctoral students

A. Allan Schmid Fellowship

Topic area: Institutional Economics

 

Last updated August 18, 2011

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