Graduate Coordinators Handbook

Section 7

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Full-time faculty and staff of the University of Mississippi are ineligible to receive any Graduate School fellowships.

A number of fellowships are available to qualified students pursuing a degree program (i.e., non-degree students are not eligible). These fellowships are available to entering graduate students and are intended as a recruiting enticement. An Honors Fellow must enroll for a full load (at least 9 hours in each semester) of graduate credit on the Oxford campus. Registration through Continuing Education will not satisfy this requirement, nor will enrollment in thesis or dissertation hours if the student is not on campus

The Graduate School awards non-service fellowships to incoming students of exceptional academic accomplishment. Recipients of a graduate fellowship are also eligible to receive departmental assistantships and/or other fellowships.

Stipends: $2,000 - $3,000 per academic year ($1,000 for master's and $1,500 for doctoral students per fall and spring semesters), regardless of degree program.

Qualifications: To be considered for an Honors Fellowship, candidates must be eligible for admission in full-standing, and meet the criteria listed below.

All students: Must hold an assistantship paying at least $2250 per semester.

International students: A GRE verbal score of at least 450.

Master's students: An undergraduate GPA of at least 3.3;
A GRE score of at least 1100 (verbal + quantitative) OR
a GMAT score of at least 550.

Doctoral students: An undergraduate GPA of at least 3.4 OR a graduate GPA or at least 3.75;
A GRE score of at least 1150 OR a GMAT score of at least 550.

Applicants for non-service fellowships must be nominated by the department in which they intend to pursue a degree.

This non-service award is designed to assist doctoral students who are in the final stages of the dissertation process. The intent is to provide financial assistance to relieve candidates of current service-type responsibilities (teaching, research and/or other related obligations to the University), thereby enabling them to focus on their research analysis and writing.

The amount of the award is $4000 plus a tuition reduction. The time period is one semester. Full-time enrollment is required. Any student nominated must be in candidacy and must have a copy of his or her prospectus on file at the Graduate School.

Students are nominated by a letter of support from the department chair.

The University and the Graduate School has had a long standing commitment to enhancing graduate training opportunities for minority students. We now have the following fellowship and scholarship support mechanisms for qualified minority graduate students.

The Graduate School administers a fellowship program available to persons who are members of minority groups that have historically been underrepresented in various graduate education programs. The stipend associated with this fellowship is $1,000 for master's students and $1,500 for doctoral students per semester (fall and spring) and includes a 75 percent tuition scholarship and a 44 percent non-resident scholarship.

To receive the fellowship a student must be admitted into a degree program, must be enrolled on the Oxford campus for at least nine hours of graduate work each semester, must be nominated by the academic department, and must not be a full-time employee. The tuition scholarship and nonresident fee scholarship are also available to graduate students who are part-time and who are enrolled at one of our off-campus centers.

The Summer Graduate Research Assistantship Program provides $2600 for doctoral students and $2000 for master's students during the summer (minimum of 10 weeks of research). The goal is to provide funds to enable promising graduate students to remain on task and on-campus in their pursuit of a degree.

To be eligible the student must be a full-time, full-standing doctoral student at any stage and in any discipline. Preference will be given to doctoral students who have completed their prospectus. A limited number of assistantships will also be reserved for master's (thesis option) track students.

The Graduate School awards up to a total of eighteen Graduate Achievement Awards each year for recognition on Honors Day. These include a maximum of two each from Accountancy, Applied Sciences, Business, Education, Engineering, and Pharmacy, and six from the College of Liberal Arts. (In Liberal Arts, the two awards are given in each of the following three areas: Area A, which includes Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Philosophy and Religions, and Physics and Astronomy; Area B, which includes Art, Classics, English, Journalism, Modern Languages, Music, and Theatre Arts; Area C, which includes History, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology and Anthropology.)

These awards are available to either masters degree seeking students or doctoral degree seeking students. Nominees would have to be enrolled during the current academic year (August and December graduates are eligible). Nominees must have satisfied all conditions of their admission and have been admitted in Full-Standing.

The minimum criteria for nomination of a student are:

a. an overall grade point average of 3.75 on all work attempted;

b. 3.75 grade point average on all work attempted in the department making the nomination;

c. 18 or more hours completed as a graduate student;

d. 18 or more hours in residence as a graduate student at the University;

e. additional criteria as determined by the department.

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